Gourahari Das

Many of his stories has been adapted as TV Films directed by Nirad Mahapatra, Basant Sahu, Dhira Mallik, Nandalal Mahapatra and telecast on DD, ETV and other TV Channels. His stories such as ‘Asami’, ‘Maya’, Shikuli’ have been made into stage plays and directed by Dhira Mallik, Pabitra Mohanty, Darpa Sethi and Ajit Dash.

President, Satabdira Kalakar, ( Premier Theatre Group of Odisha) since 2014

Member of Executive Committee of Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi 2013-2017

Short stories of Gourahari show deep insight into human nature and the resilience of the human spirit. –Ruskin Bond

Gourahari Das sensitively chronicles the lives of the characters, and deftly probes their motives as they face life's exigencies, deal with moral dilemmas, experience crises of survival, or simply try to cope with the complicated business of living. – Jatin Nayak

He is associated with a number of socio-cultural organizations of Odisha which work for betterment of human life and building better society. He is the President of Shatabdira Kalajkar, a leading Theatre Group of Odisha and Advisor of Trishakti Mahila Samiti, a prominent Women's organization. Besides he is a Member of Utkal Sahitya Samaj, the oldest cultural body of Odisha. He was a Member of Regional Film Censor Board from 2012-15.

Senior Fellowship of Ministry of Culture, India-2011

Writer in Residency, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi-2010

He is associated with Sahitya Akademi (India's highest body of letters) since 2008- first as a Member of Odia Advisory Board and then a Member of Executive Board and General Council .

Member of Odia Advisory Board of Sahitya Akademi, 2008-2017

Principal, Sambad School of Media and Culture since 2007

He has traveled different countries and participated in cultural exchange programmes. He visited the United States in 1996 and again in 2000 to deliver speeches at Annual Conference of OSA. (Odisha Society of Americas) in Washington DC and Nashvalley. He had been to China in 2002 as a Member of Indian Writers Delegation and participated in Frankfurt Book Fair, Germany in 2014. He has visited Sweden, UK, Netherland, France, Czech, Slovakia, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium and Austria.

He joined in SAMBAD (the largest Daily of Odisha) in 1985 as a trainee sub-editor and rose up to become an Editor of this Media House. His long association with Sambad Group gave him an opportunity to explore his multi-faceted talent. He started writing his popular columns “Jibanara Jalachhabi” ( Vignetts of Life) and “ Rajadhani Rajaniti” ( Power Politics of the Capital) in this newspaper which brought him prominence. While the first one is a creative commentary on human life the later is a political satire. Later he became the Editor of KATHA (the fiction monthly of Sambad Group). He is also the Principal of Sambad School of Media and Culture, a pioneer media institute affiliated to Utkal University of Culture since 2007.

A recipient of Sahitya Akademi Award, India Gourahari is a creative writer, editor and columnist. His first book “ Juara Bhatta” which is a collection of short stories, was published in 1981 when he was still pursuing his studies in Ravenshaw Evening College. Besides writing fictions he also writes regular columns in newspaper SAMBAD which are very popular.

Born in the year 1960, in a back of the beyond village in the district of Bhadrak (formerly a part of Balasore) of state Odisha in India, Gourahari grew up with keen eyes of observation and sensibility which shaped his creative being.