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Who is the first Indian poet to bag Sahitya Academy Award for writing in English (Poetry)?

  1. Ramachndra Guha

  2. Raja Roa

  3. Jayant Mahaptra

  4. A.K Ramanujan
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Explanation

Jayanta Mahapatra (misspelled as Mahaptra) was indeed the first Indian poet to receive the Sahitya Akademi Award for English poetry in 1981 for his work 'Relationship'. Note that options have typos (Ramachndra, Raja Roa should be Rao, Mahaptra should be Mahapatra).

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