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Dr. Ashok K. Choudhury, associated with India's National Academy of Letters, is the first Indian scholar to do doctoral research on the role of National Academies in promoting art, literature and culture. Having brilliant academic records with both Master's degree and Bachelor's degree and securing first position is presently doing his postdoctoral research on the Thematical Varieties of Post-Independent Oriya Literature. Author of seven books and more than eighty articles based on erudite research, Dr. Choudhury was invited to join the team of scholars of A Critical Inventory of Ramayan Studies in the world, a joint project of Sahitya Akademi and Union Academic International of Bruxelles, Belgium. Recipient of Banshidhar Acharya Memorial Gold Medal, Dr. Choudhury is also the Visiting Faculty of Aggarwal college, (M.D. University, Rohtak), Ballabhgarh, Haryana.

Dr. Baman Parida has been a senior Faculty Member at P.G. Dept. of Library and Information Science, Utkal University, Orissa, retiring in 2005. A post-graduate in Public Admn., and M.Lib. Info. Sc., and Ph.D. in Lib. & Inf. Sc., he has contributed and presented a number of papes at national level conferences/journals of library and information science and technology. He has edited and published three books in English and one textbook in Oriya. He has also compiled a glossary in Library and Information Science (Oriya-English) published by Orissa Text Book Bureau. Under his able guidance three sholars has already been awarded Ph.D. in Library Science from Utkal University. Dr. Parida is a member of several professional\societies\associations and cultural organizations of India. He has organized ILA, IATLIS, SIS, and Caliber as joint organizing and organizing secretary of these national level conferences and seminars. Formerly General Secretary of Utkal Library Association, Orissa, presently he is a council member of ILA.