Sitakant Mahapatra, Indian poet and literary critic

Sitakant Mahapatra

Indian poet and literary critic (born 1937)

Sitakant Mahapatra is an Indian poet and literary critic in Odia as well as English. He served in the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) from 1961 until he retired in 1995, and has held ex officio posts such as the Chairman of National Book Trust, New Delhi since then.