Jayanta Mahapatra (22 October 1928 – 27 August 2023) was an Indian English poet. He is the first Indian poet to win a Sahitya Akademi award for English poetry.
Great poetry that is rooted in Indian, or rather, specifically Oriya ethos. Mahapatra is a poet whose sensitivity and personal anguish in the face of the human situation and current injustice is painfully wonderful.