Prateek Pattanaik is a musician, scholar and archivist. A vocalist and Bīṇākāra, he was trained by his grandmother Smt. Kanak Lata Sabath and Guru Brundabana Khandual before studying under Pt. Ramarao Patro, in the lineage of Aṣṭābadhānī Āchārya Tarini Charan Patra (1893-1979), specialising in the critically-endangered South Odishan sampradāya of Odissi music.

Currently a research scholar at Berhampur University, he is conducting an analytical study of the 17th-century treatise Saṅgītanārāyaṇa. Prateek specialises in manuscriptology, focusing on rare palm-leaf manuscripts and shellac records. He is the author of four books, notably Oḍiśī Saṅgīta Bāridhi (2023), Oḍiā: Journey of a Language (2024) and Lakṣmī Nārāyaṇa Bacanikā (2025).

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Image : Chitra-pothi of Upendra Bhañja’s Lābaṇyabatī depicting musicians, illustrated by the 19th-century master Raghunātha Pruṣṭi of Dharākoṭa, Gañjām. Subuddhi collection, photograph by Prateek Pattanaik, 2024.