Dr. Dipak Samantarai

Former Director, NABM, AIR & DD, OMFED Square, Bhubaneswar. Award-winning media professional, poet, academic, and motivational author with over 35 years in broadcasting, writing, and training.

Experience

Produced and presented diverse radio programmes since 1987, across genres: features, plays, interviews, serials, etc.

• Kalika – 156-episode series for Anganwadi children (Project CHEER)
• Suneli Swakhyara – Oriya film director series
• Dadhyata Bhakti – 100 episodes on social reformers
• Muktiratnuryananda – 20 episodes on Odisha’s freedom struggle
• Novel Readings – Works by Bibhuti Pattanaik, Gopal Ballav Das, Jaganath Prasad Das, etc.

Education

• M.A. in History – Utkal University
• MJMC – Utkal University
• LL.B. – Utkal University
• Ph.D. – Berhampur University

Skills & Contributions

• Radio production and broadcasting (features, drama, interviews)
• Poetry writing and translation (English/Oriya)
• Editorial writing in national publications
• Photography – Solo exhibition "Vignettes of Rajasthan" (1990-91)
• Training and mentoring in mass communication and media

Publications & Literary Work

Poetry Books

• Chhai Aluara Pashakhela (1994)
• Kanthalekha (2001)
• Shosa (2008)
• Seven Horses (Editor/Translator, 2010)

Prose Books

• Ajira Anuchinta (2005)
• Shanta Mana Sustha Jibana (2008)
• Raghunath Kirtanare Samajika Jibana (2008)

Featured In

The Statesman, The Indian Express, The Week, Sunday Telegraph, Samaja, Sambad, Jhankara and many more in English and Oriya.

Awards & Honours

• 1st Prize – Akashvani Annual Awards 2007 for "Anek Anichhara Bhumire"
• Merit Certificates – 1992 & 1994 (AIR Awards)
• Best Trainer Award – 2013 & 2015
• Chairman/Member – Boards of Studies (Utkal University, OSOU)
• Guest Faculty & Examiner – Utkal, Ravenshaw, BJB College, Sambalpur University
• Honoured by Literary Institutions for Oriya Poetry & Translation