Damayanti Beshra

She also published the first women's magazine in Santali language called Karam Dar.

She is the first female writer in the language to author and publish an anthology of poems Jiwi Jharna in 1994.

Even though there was no school in his village Babeijoda, a local resident used to teach the children in a small shade where she got his primary education.

Her paternal uncle was very when he came to know that she was interested in studies and took her and got her admitted in a government school of Deuli village.

As there were no colleges near Rairangpur, she enrolled at Rama Devi Women's University, Bhubaneswar, as an undergraduate.