Prados Mishra” is a highly respected name and much-talked -of personality in Odia literary circles. He has already created a special niche for himself among the readers of Odia literature, through his writings of more than two hundred short stories, a number of novels and a few travelogues. Many of his short stories are highly acclaimed, fondly remembered and also translated into various other Indian languages. He is quite an adept in writing stories on family relationships as well as events related to deeper psychological feelings of pain and pleasure. His fascination for the grass-root level characters and the story-telling abilities with which he depicts them, are capable of creating soul searching commotion in the mind of the readers. His special ability is discovering and describing the extraordinary attributes of the most ordinary, mundane characters selected from the society. He is capable of making those characters come alive through his literary pen. Life philosophy and its various positive view points bring out a fighting spirit among the conscientious readers. All of his stories are insightful and touching. The way he deals with human psychology in the stories are introspective and touches the inner soul Sri Prados Mishra has been honoured with a number of literary prizes and rewards.