Education

Dr. ItiraniSamanta pursued her primary education in her village school at Kalarabanka and after that shifted to Cuttack and passed High School Certificate Examination from Khan Nagar High School. After her High School education, she took admission in Ramadevi Women’s College, Bhubaneswar to perusing Higher Secondary education in Science. Soon after the completion of +2 science, she joined Electronics & Tele-communication Engineering course to financially support her family.

. But she had a strong desire since her School days to become a writer, so her literary calling passion gained over her and after completion of engineering degree again she changed her academic pursuit to literature which brought her a meritorious Post GraduateDegree in Odia Literature and a lambent Masters Degree in Mass Communications and Advanced Journalism from Utkal University, Odisha. Later, she did her Ph.D. in literature from Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan. She was also awarded Junior and prestigious Senior Fellowship of the Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India.