The coffee table book, “Tribal Freedom Fighters of Odisha,” is a tribute to those who rose not for medals or memorials but to protect the pulse of their community and motherland. The book is an attempt to retrieve those luminous fragments of history and reassemble them into the narrative they always deserved. Odisha’s tribal freedom fighters were never rebels by chance; they were guardians by destiny. Their revolts were born from a deep moral economy of land, dignity, and ancestral rights. Their courage travelled through hills and rivers, speaking a language of sovereignty rooted in soil. Their struggle was not episodic but civilizational; not reactive but visionary. To celebrate them is to honor the very grammar of India’s freedom movement, whose earliest chapters were drafted in tribal homelands.
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Dr. ANTARJEETA NAYAK, Dr. RAMAKRISHNA BISWAL
Dr. Antarjeeta Nayak, a Researcher and Columnist, holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela. She is the recipient of ICSSR Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Fellowship. Her research spans poverty, development, and psycho-socio-economic and cultural assessments, focusing on health, education, children, women, and the environment. Dr. Nayak is deeply engaged in independent tribal research, regularly contributing impactful articles on tribal issues in esteemed Odia dailies. Notably, her study on “Tribal School Dropouts” garnered the prestigious International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development (ISSBD) Grant in 2022, presented in Spain. Dr. Nayak has been conferred with the prestigious Laadli Media Award 2025 for her gender-sensitive, insightful, and socially impactful column in the Odia daily “The Prameya". Dr. Nayak has authored 15 books and has written over 150 columns for Odia Daily.
Dr. Ramakrishna Biswal is an Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Rourkela. He earned his Ph.D. in Developmental Social Cognition from the University of Delhi after completing his M.Phil. and M.A. in Clinical and Counselling Psychology from Utkal University. With more than two decades of academic and professional experience, he has worked with prestigious institutions such as DRDO, FORE School of Management, Amity University, Delhi University, and Pearson Clinical and Talent Assessment in diverse research and academic roles. Beyond academics, he also served as a casual news reader-cum-translator at All India Radio, Delhi. His research interests encompass a wide range of areas, including developmental disability, tribal mental health and counselling, emotion mapping, curriculum design, inclusive education, and engineering ethics. He served as the Regional Coordinator of Unnat Bharat Abhiyan, Odisha, a flagship program of the Ministry of Education, and currently heads the Institute Counselling Services at NIT Rourkela. Through his multifaceted contributions, Dr. Biswal has established himself as a scholar committed to both academic excellence and social development.
