Bhubaneswar: The last rites of eminent writer Manoj Das will be held at Puducherry with national honour. Tourism and Culture Minister Jyotiprakash Panigrahi will attend the funeral.
While offering his condolence to family members of the author, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik through his twitter handle urged the Puducherry government to conduct the last rites of Das with national honour.
Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan also made similar request.
Das passed away in a nursing home of Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Puducherry on Tuesday. He was undergoing treatment there for old age ailments.
He is considered as the foremost bilingual Odia writer and a master of dramatic expression both in his English and Odia short stories and novels.
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