India, Oct. 25 -- Bhogla Soren is a well known Santhali dramatist. He was born in a lower-middle-class family on 4th September 1958 at Kharaband village in the district of Singbhum, Bihar (now East Singbhum, Jharkhand ). His father, Mora Mansingh Soren, was a farmer and a practitioner of Santhal traditional medicines in the village. He was a religious person.
Soren was brought up in the care of his mother. He received primary education at his village, after which, he was admitted to a school four kilometres away from his village. After passing Intermediate Science from Tata College, Chaibasa in 1978 he began studying B.Sc (Hons) at Jamshedpur Co-operative College. Still, he discontinued his education due to continuous draught from 1976 to ...