Baripada – 15/09/2024 at the local Martyr’s Memorial Building, we: The National Drama Festival organized in Baripada Anukuli started from the 6th of this month and was inaugurated on the 14th in a grand ceremony. The festival was held for the first time for 9 days. 16 Talents Honored in Memory of Prominent Dibanga Artists Who Brought Glory to Bhanjmati I Anjali Mishra was honored with a Nirmalkanti Poet Memorial, Subrata Sahu with Purnachandra Bindhani Memorial, Saur Bihari Das with Nimai Mohanty Memorial, Prasana Mohanty with a Prasanna Mohanty Memorial, Dhir Nesa with a Gouripad Tripathi Memorial, Tapas Sargharia with a Vijay Mohanty Memorial, Subodh Patnaik with Ajit Das Memorial, and Swaraj Barik with Sublan Mohanty. Brijendra Raut was honored with the Sabanand Sahu Memorial, Kundan Bhanj with the Salil Mitra Memorial, Satyanarayan Das with the Siddharth Bose Memorial, Ratikant Behera with the Samajpati Memorial, Mahesh Sahu with the Satyanarayan Bhatt Memorial, Shiv Shankar Barik with the Anand Shankar Das Memorial, Pramod Tripathi with the Dr. Viswajit Pal, and Viswajit Pal with the Dr. Panchanan Patel Memorial. In the art exhibition, the first Shreyashantu Behera, second Surya Saha, third Trilekha Nayak and the first Sulagna Rana, second Rajkishore Mahanat, third Stuti Mohanty in the above 18 years category were also awarded, General Editor Chinmay Das Patnaik said.