Background
She is the second daughter of Ishwar Chandra Sahoo and the late Nalini Devi. Her husband is Jagadish Mohanty, a veteran writer of Orissa. She has a son and a daughter.
She is the second daughter of Ishwar Chandra Sahoo and the late Nalini Devi. Her husband is Jagadish Mohanty, a veteran writer of Orissa. She has a son and a daughter.
Sarojini has an MA and PhD degrees in Oriya Literature and a Bachelor of Law from Utkal University. She now teaches at a Degree college in Belpahar, Jharsuguda of Orissa.
She has had an illustrious literary career. Though she is a bilingual writer, she prefers to write her creative writings in Oriya and her critical appraisal in English . She has been widely translated and published in different Indian languages. Her stories have been included in anthologies published by Harper Collins, National Book Trust ,Gnanapith and Sahitya Akademi. She is the first Oriya writer to have a novel translated and published from Bangladesh. Sarojini Sahoo is a key figure and trendsetter of feminism in contemporary Indian literature. For her, feminism is not a "gender problem" or confrontational attack on male hegemony and, as such, differs from the feminist views of Virginia Woolf or Judith Butler. Sahoo accepts feminism as an integral part of femaleness separate from the masculine world. Writing with a heightened awareness of women’s bodies, she has developed an appropriate style that exploits openness, fragmentation, and nonlinearity.
Sarojini Sahoo is a key figure and trendsetter of feminism in contemporary Indian literature. Sahoo, however contents that whilst the woman identity is certainly constitutionally different from that of man, men and women still share a basic human equality. Thus the harmful asymmetric gender "Othering" arises accidentally and "passively" from natural, unavoidable intersubjectivity.