User:Akhila Kumar Mishra

Born in September 1973 Akhil Kumar Mishra is a major young voice in Oriya poetry in the past two decades. He started his literary career from Ravenshaw College, now Ravenshaw University where he edited the prestigious "Jagarana" Magazine and also associated with the Ravenshavian. A brilliant student with lot of achivements in his student days, Mr Mishra finished his Post Graduation in Sociology from Utkal University and later went to Delhi for study. He joined Orissa Administrative Service in early 1997 and resigned from the job in 1999 to join Indian Civil Services.,As a senior officer of Indian Information Service, Group-A He started His professional careers in Mussoorie and Delhi. He has worked in All India Radio News in Delhi, Kohima, Nagaland and Cuttack in various capacities. He was also associated with the starting of Doordarshan News in Nagaland. Mr Mishra worked as the News Director of Doordarshan Kendra, Kolkata for two years. At present, he is working as the Regional Director of the Film Censore Board for Orissa.

Mr Akhila Kumar Mishra has established a new trend in Oriya poetry where he has used his various experiences and the use of common words to denote the deepness of human relationships.His extremely free hand poems evokes emotions of various ranges and eastablishes the common man. He has three poetry books to his credit and numerous awards.