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Achyuta Samanta:The man who turned his struggle to his Passion |
Anybody would shudder to think about a small boy without food for days together, think about the helplessness of his mother not being able to arrange some food for seven hungry siblings and think about a hapless situation in which his family was thrown to find its own way to survive. This nightmarish childhood of Achyuta Samanta due to the untimely tragic demise of his father when he was only four was perhaps the beginning of his struggle which seems to be continuing till date. The struggle, he started while walking up to the school thinking all the way for creating a better world sans poverty, hunger has now been turned into his passion... Read on
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A Brief Note on Achyuta Samanta |
Truth is sometimes stranger than the fiction. How prophetic is this can be known from the saga of a poor man’s journey to opulence. Opulence is not for the self but for the people languishing in abject poverty surrounded by ignorance and neglect. This century perhaps belongs to people like Achyuta Samanta who could brave adversities of life with ease, bleeding within yet putting up an infectious smile on the face. The sudden demise of his father while he was only 4 years old pushed Samanta to the walls, but penury and shattered childhood could not hold Achyuta back from shining and becoming a messiah for hundreds and thousands of people living in the lowest strata of the society... Read on |
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Samanta's Struggle : From Penury to Opulence for others |
| Like diamonds coming out from dark coal mines, the small boy of yester years has become the jewel in the crown of humanity. In a world where material wealth determines the voice of the people and where money speaks louder, a young man’s attempt to call on the people to listen beyond their own prejudices, beliefs, prerogatives and convenience must seem to be a tirade against the mighty and brutal diktat of a crippled society. The feeble tone of a small child would have lost in the melee but the melancholy through his mellifluous voice created a megaton inside his skinny exterior. The child, despite being born poor in an obscure village in Odisha, one of the poorest states of India... Read on |
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