About this stamp
On the Stamp
A portrait of Fakir Mohan Senapati with white hair, printed in reddish brown, with his name in Hindi and English, on a ₹1 stamp.
Fakir Mohan Senapati
India Post issued this ₹1 stamp on 14 January 1993, for the 150th anniversary of the birth of Fakir Mohan Senapati (1843–1918), often called the father of modern Odia literature. Largely self-educated, he worked for about 25 years as an administrator in the feudatory states and came to serious writing as late as 51. His fiction showed the hard lives of the exploited in realistic terms, and India Post’s folder counts him among the pioneers of social realism in Indian writing. He also translated the Ramayana and the Mahabharata from Sanskrit.
For More Information
Read more here:
