Pratibha Ray

Her search for a "social order based on equality, love, peace and integration", continues, since she first penned at the age of nine.

When she wrote for a social order, based on equality without class, caste, religion or sex discriminations, some of her critics branded her as a communist, and some as feminist.

She continued her writing career even after her marriage and raising a family of three children and husband Akshay Ray who is an engineer.

She started her professional career as a school teacher, and later she taught in various government colleges in Odisha for thirty years.

One important incident in her life is protesting against colour (caste/religion) discrimination by the high priests of Jagannath Temple at Puri.

Visited Zurich, Switzerland, in 2000 to present a paper in the Third European Conference on Gender Equality in Higher Education.