Madhusudan_Das

His Life and Achievements 197
could undertake as action-agenda for futuristic design of Oriyas and
Orissan people. He might have tailed in some of his projects, but looking
deeper into his personality, expressed in his writings and speeches and
scanty record of his numerous welfare activities: one is tempted to suggest
that as a leader of the Oriya people, his vision was that of a 'comprehensive
whole'— a lull-grown, matured personality dedicated to the blossoming
of Orissa. As he himself said".. object of life is to connect the past and the
future so that the result is a homogeneous whole." (Italics mine) (Utkal
Gaurab Madhusudan p. 306), He was the visionary leader, who was
seeking a 'continuity and renewal' of the valid history of the Orissan
people. While adopting valid means (through memoranda and letters )
for Judging organising and passionately advocating the cause of Orissa,
he used his facile pen and speeches as reflected in poems, essay letters
and particularly his extempore utterances at Utkal Sammilani conventions.
This is further recorded in this political deliberations as a legislator (See :
Madhusdan Das: The Legislator, (Ed) N.K. Sahu & P.K. MIshra: Pragati
Utkal Sangha. Rourkela, 1980).
As indicated Madhusudan's literary output is diverse. In one of his
speeches he had told .
Gradually as the child grown and goes to the school, he learns to
respect the right of other children - his plav mates. Experience
leaches him that he cannot take away the toy of another child.
This experience. I may say. is the dawn of altruism. When the
child grows to be a young man or woman and marries. attains
fatherhood or motherhood, the altruistic principle is developed
in a higher degree. The man then learns to live for others. He
learns to sacrifice his own comforts to secure the comforts of his
family and children. So when we examine human life, we find
that with the decadence of selfishness there is the proportionate
development of the altruistic principle in man till the altruistic
principles attains to a higher standard to be found in family lefe."
( Dash. D.K.. Madhusudan Das : The Man and His Missions:
1998.p.211)
All his oratorial exhuberence. letters and travel experiences lead
us to comprehend the intrinsic poetic quality and literary sensibility
based on this 'altruistic' philosophy. How do we evaluate his personality
vis a vis his literary products ? Madhusudan's literary personality had its
active involvement in his speeches at 'Utkal Sammilani' and other fora. I