Pitambar Tarai

Pitambar Tarai (Born in 1959) is an Odisha Sahitya Academy awarded poet from Odisha, India. The prominent occupation in his family was commercial fishing. He was born in Mangarajpur village south of Kujang in the Jagatsinghpur district, Odisha. His poetry is mostly concerned with emotional topics of life, like sorrow and happiness. A common theme of his work is the mentioning of the Dalit, the lowest caste of Indian society.