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cuttack , orissa , india cuttack 250px indian administrative service officer , writer -lsb- cuttack http://ravenshawuniversity.ac.in/website/new-functionaries/vice-chancellor.htm vice-chancellor -rsb- -lsb- http://ravenshawuniversity.ac.in ravenshaw university -rsb- chairman biju patnaik film and television institute , cuttack 15 november 2006 devdas chhotray
 devdas chhotray first vice-chancellor of ravenshaw university ravenshaw college , utkal university cornell university ,
devdas chhotray

devdas chhotray is a writer in the oriya language and the first vice-chancellor of ravenshaw university .
his work consists of poetry , short stories , lyrics , musicals and screenplays .
chhotray 's father gopal , a recipient of padma , central sahitya academy and sangeet natak academy awards , was an architect of modern oriya theatre .
chhotray 's four decades of poetry and lyrics have been translated into indian and foreign languages , and he has been published in bengali -lrb- in the sunil gangopadhyaya-edited `` krittibas '' .
he has received the prajatantra bisuv milan and utkal samaj centenary -lrb- gangadhar meher samman -rrb- awards and the 2008 rajdhani book fair award 2008 for poetry .
he has written a collection of stories , `` lal machha '' -lrb- `` red fish '' -rrb- , the lyrics for more than 75 films in oriya and television musicals .
chhotray is known for his collaboration with akshaya mohanty , a pioneer in modern oriya music from the 1960s until his death in 2002 , as mohanty 's principal songwriter .
he has written screenplays for feature films in oriya .
one , `` indradhanura chhai '' -lrb- `` shadows of the rainbow '' -rrb- was screened at the cannes film festival in 1995 .
chhotray was director of the orissa film development corporation from 1983 -- 89 and 1996 -- 98 , chairman of the publications committee for the fifth international children 's film festival in 1987 and was vice-president of the governing council of the film and television institute of india in pune from 1999 -- 2001 .
in addition to chhotray 's anthologies of poems and stories in oriya , notably `` nila saraswati '' -lrb- `` blue muse '' -rrb- and `` hati saja kara '' -lrb- `` order the elephants '' -rrb- , english translations of his poems have appeared in `` longing '' -lrb- published by pimlico books in london -rrb- .
an anthology of his poems in hindi , `` ret ki sidhi '' -lrb- `` a staircase of sand '' -rrb- has been published in delhi .
chhotray was educated at ravenshaw college -lrb- now ravenshaw university -rrb- and cornell university .
after joining the indian administrative service in 1971 , he worked in west bengal , bihar , orissa and new delhi .
in 2006 chhotray became the first vice-chancellor of ravenshaw university , obtained ugc approval for the school in six months .
