The Manav Adhikar Suraksha Manch observed the birthday of Vyasakabi Fakir Mohan Senapati here on Saturday.
Manch members remembered Fakir Mohan as a teacher, a journalist, an administrator, a reformer, a poet and a novelist at the meeting which was presided over by coordinator Abani Kumar Gaya. They too discussed social and ideological aspects of his writings. “Fakir Mohan had rescued Odia language, culture and the whole Odia clan from uncertainties,” members opined while remembering his efforts to place Odisha’s demands before the British Government by establishing a printing machine and editing ‘Bodhadayhini’ and ‘Balasore Samabdbahika’ magazines at Baleswar.
Among others, Dr AR Burma, Trinath Nayak, Banshidhar Bhuyan, Bhismacharya Choudhury, Bijay Bisoi, Maguni Nayak, Chitta Ranjan Panda and Suresh Chandra Tripathi were present.