Orissa is proud of a few of her famous children. Radhanath Rath was one of them. He was the staunch disciple and follower of Utkalamani Gopabandhu Das.
Orissa is proud of a few of her famous children. Radhanath Rath was one of them. He was the staunch disciple and follower of Utkalamani Gopabandhu Das. He was born in 1896 at Athagarh. His father Jagannath Rath was a poor Brahmin. His mother’s name was Kamali Devi.
Radhanath Rath started his education in the Jubilee School of Balasore where his uncle Lokanath Mohapatra was the Sanskrit teacher. Then he came to Collegiate School of Cuttack. There he was influenced by the Headmaster W. W. Hunderson and Pandit Mritunjay Rath. He was matriculated in 1916. He married Sayitri Devi in that year.
Although he was a clerk in the Forest Department of Orissa, he abandoned that job and came to the Satyabadi Press to work under Gopabandhu Das. It was in the year 1919. He started his career as a journalist. Radhanath Rath was a freedom fighter too. He joined the Freedom
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Movement in 1042 and was- sentenced for two years. After the death of Pundit Gopabandhu Das, Radhanatath Rath became the editor of the Samaj, the famous Oriya Newspaper. He was an ex-member of the Legislative Assembly of Odisha. He was also an ex-Minister of the Government of Odisha.
As a social worker, Radhanath Rath was very popular in every part of Orissa. He generously granted help to the flood and fife victims, He also granted financial help to the poor meritorious students. He was a great follower of the Gandhian principles; He adopted simplicity in his life. Under his active Co-operation, the Samaj was jointly published from Cuttack and Sambalpur, He was awarded such title as Padam Bhusan, Anu Brata and, Utkal Rath.
Radhanath Rath died on 12th February 1996 at the age of 102.