About
Meet Prabir Dash
Prabir was born in a remote coastal village, Arikhia, Odisha. He is the sixth child of his parents’ seven children. He was part of a vast joint family of his grandfather, the Jamindar (landlord) of that area. His parents moved to Cuttack City in the late 1950s for his father’s construction business. Prabir graduated from Secondary Board High School in 1967.
In high school, he developed a love for reading and watching movies in Odia (his mother tongue), Bengali, Hindi, and English.
Prabir Dash
Prabir opted to enter the University College of Engineering, Burla (currently VSS University) and graduated in Mechanical Engineering in First class with Honors in 1974.
Immediately after, he started his engineering consulting firm, the Bureau of Metropolitan Consultancy. After training at the Building Research Institute in Roorkee, he was the first person in Odisha to get a license to use underground piling foundations for building structures. He also used large concrete pile-driven foundations to build jetties at the Paradip Port, Odisha.
In 1975, he received a Science Foundation scholarship to study structural design at the State University of New York at Stoney Brook, LI, and traveled to the USA. He completed his M.S. in 1976 and joined an engineering farm to build Nuclear Power Plants. After about 22 years of traveling to different cities in the USA in his professional occupation, he retired from Raytheon Engineering Farm in 1998.
In 1998, he and his wife started Dash Corporation. They owned and operated a retail business in Lewisburg, TN, for the next ten years.
During all these times, his reading hobby has become an addiction. He continued to read voraciously and write in both English and Odia. His short stories have been published in some magazines, and his Odia lyrics have been made into songs and released as an album.
Three of his novellas in English have been compiled and published as a book, titled “LADIES OF THE LORES” by Become Shakesears Publishing Company.
His second book, a compilation of his poems in Odia, was published by Pakshighara Publishing and was named SABDA BILAS.
His first album, “CHAKRADHARI,” was released in 2000 and contains eight Bhajans performed by well-known Odia singers.
His second album, “SMRUTI BILAS,” which also features eight songs sung by popular Odisha singers, was released in 2023 and bought by Zee Music. The songs are now available on YouTube.
Prabir is working on another English fantasy fiction to be released sometime in 2025.
Prabir and his wife, Prajesh Nandini, reside in a quiet and serene neighborhood of Franklin, Tennessee, USA. They have one son, Pratik, who lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife Neely, near them.