Prasanna Kumar Patasani

Patsani joined the Maharishi Mahesh yogi ashram at Rishikesh and went through yoga ashanas trainings. He went to Switzerland to join the ashram of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Ashram. In Switzerland he was the student of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi with Ravi Sankar. With the team of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi he travelled extensively worldwide and about one hundred countries. Around 1980's he returned to India and was the founder President of Maharishi College of Natural Law in Bhubaneswar, the state capital of Orissa. There after he actively took part and open around hundreds of institutions, out of which 20-30 institutions are in the name of Patasani and he is the founder father of various educational institutions in the state of Orissa. In 1980s the people of the eastern region used to travel towards the southern states for higher and technical educations, where after upon the active leadership of Prasanna Patasani not only the state of Orissa became the hub of the technical education in the state but also in the entire eastern region Orissa became the hub for the technical education behind almost all the institutions, Prasanna Patasani has played the major role for establishment of such institutions. Apart from the educational institutions, Prasanna Patasani has written many a Books and poems and Film songs besides acting in various movies and songs which were well acclaimed not only in the state of Orissa but also spread worldwide.

Prasanna Patasani has been elected for the eighth time (four times as Member of Legislative Assembly and four times as the Member of Parliament from Bhubaneswar the state capital of Orissa). He is a great follower of Shri Biju Patnaik.

Patasani has published 60 books, in different languages, and has written about 100 articles. He has spoken in Japan, US, and UK at Oxford University on "the future of human civilization". He had gone underground for about 12 years to save him from imprisonment on the alleged involvement with the Maoist and their cause. During the period of his underground he joined his guru, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who taught him the Patanjali Yoga Sutra, which changed his life. He still carries the "blessing wand" his guru gave him.[1]

ON INDIAN LANGUAGES :

Dr. Prasanna Kumar Patasani is the Sanyojak of Bharatiya Raj Bhasa (Hindi) Salahkar Samiti in the Indian Parliament. He has authored many a Hindi and other Indian Constitutionally Acclaimed Language books. He is also an advisor to Bharatiya Bhasa Abhiyan Odisha and has delivered lectures on many Indian languages and is working for the promotion of all the 22 official languages in India in the Courts and is consistently delivering lectures for bringing ordinance in respective states for implementation of state languages in the respective Hon'ble High Courts including Orissa High Court under Article 348 (2) of the Constitution of India. Dr. Prasanna PAtasani is termed as the principal leader leading Odia language to be declared as the Classical Language status in India since he argued that the History of Odia Language and Odia script in Pali too and is very much available in the caves of Khandagiri and Udaya Giri in Bhubaneswar which goes back to three thousand years.

• Indian general election, 2014 (Odisha)
• Indian general election, 2009 (Odisha)

• Members of Fourteenth Lok Sabha - Parliament of India website