Ranjeet Pradhan, police by profession and poet by passion. He is famous with the title “Police Poet”. He started writing since 2013 and rise to fame with in a very short period.
Ranjeet was born in 1974 at Kuruan, Bargarh and joined police department in 1997. His father is Biswambar Pradhan and his mother Late Dukha Pradhan. At present he resides at Bargarh. He has been felicitated with “Koshal Sipahi” title. Apart from this he has been felicitated by more than 80 institutions and organization on different occasions.
Ranjeet publish his first poetry collection Ban Munush in 2015. And his second anthology “Ghat” is in press. Ghat has given him satisfactions he reveled. He added; he took 6 to 7 months to compose one poem.
Ranjet is one of the busiest performing poets. He regularly attends various stages along with other poets of his contemporary like Nitish Acharya, Debendra Sahu and Harilal Sahu. After Haldhar Nag these 5 poets including Late Sanjib Bania are considered as the most demanded to present poems at various functions.
He says, Kosali/Sambalpuri language needs more prose, essays travelogue etc to enrich it. At present maximum writings are poems. And unless and until we will not fill up our literature with prose, it will be incomplete.
Further he comments, our language is widely spoken in western part of Odisha but we lack readership and patrons. We have to write such poems that the sweetness of our language which is the insignia of it, need to be acknowledged by the audience.