Awards & Honors

Rath was not only an avid reader; he was a prolific writer too. Besides numerous research papers and discipline-specific books, he wrote a large number of popular articles in Odia based on the day to day happenings in the society. He regularly contributed articles to widely circulated local newspapers and magazines. He was also a novelist, with a psychological orientation in his stories that focused on human relationships, emotions, family bonding, and social issues. He has written a large number of books-29 novels, 9 travelogues, and an autobiography Mo Swapna, Mo Jibana (My Dream, My Life) in Odia language which was his mother tongue. All his literary creations are extensively read and appreciated by the people of Odisha and earned him the prestigious Odisha Sahitya Academy award.

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He won several regional, national and international awards for his achievements in academics and literary and social work. Some of them include the National Scholarship (University of London, 1946-1949), Soviet Land Nehru Award (1966), National Fellowship (ICSSR, 1981-1983), Odisha Sahitya Academy award (1993), Vigyana Prachara Samiti award (for Popularization of Science, 1998 and 2002), Bharat Excellence Award Gold Medal (2005), and Personalities of India Award Gold Medal (2005) by International Penguin Publishing House [1]. Rath was elected as the local secretary of the Indian Science Congress in 1962 and 1977. He was also elected as the president of the Psychology and education section of the Indian Science Congress in 1966 and as the president of the Academy of Applied Psychology, India, for a period in 1972-1974. He edited and published by his own singular efforts an influential Odia literary monthly magazine called Samukhya, which was known for its liberal and Marxist policy.