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The noted Oriya poet Dr Tapan Kumar Pradhan spent a few years of his childhood and early adult life at Nuapada.
The Sahitya Akademi prize winning poems Kalahandi and Equation by Dr Tapan Kumar Pradhan were chiefly based on the poet's observation of tribal life in the Sinapali, Komana and Boden blocks of Nuapada.
In 2007 he won Sahitya Akademi's Indian Literature Golden Jubilee Literary Translation Prize for Poetry along with Dr Tapan Kumar Pradhan.
The Sahitya Akademi award winning poem Kalahandi by Dr Tapan Kumar Pradhan was based on the poet's observation of life in and around Sinapali.
The other members of faculty included Mr S Venkitachalam, Mr Rajesh Jai Kanth, Dr Tapan Kumar Pradhan, Mr Anuranjan Patanaik, Mr Sanjay Kumar Bhatt and Mr Rajesh Chandra Gupta.