Sandip Patra and (below) the Limca Book of Records certificate. Telegraph pictures

Paradip, Feb. 21: A 28-year-old DTP operator from Jagatsinghpur district has made his way into the Limca Book of Records for his skills in composing written texts in more than 60 languages.

Sandip Patra, who holds this record, lives at Panisalia village on the outskirts of Jagatsinghpur district headquarters town and works for the state government-regulated marketing cooperatives in Jagatsinghpur.

“He has composed and designed periodicals in over 60 different languages,” says the certificate.

“Among the publications he has designed is children’s magazine Suna Bhauni, which is published in over 75 languages,” the certificate adds.

“I dedicate my success to my parents Purna Chandra Patra and Soubhagini Ray. The late Bijoy Mahapatra, founder and editor of Suna Bhauni, was a source of inspiration for me,” Patra told The Telegraph.

The computer-savvy Patra has composed in languages such as Odia, Hindi, English, Bengali, Gujarati, Telugu, Sanskrit, Kannada, Urdu, Tamil, Sindhi, Punjabi, Marathi, Santhali, Malayalam, Nepali, Manipuri, Konkani, Dogri, Kui, Bhojpuri, Dogri, Kashmiri and other Indian languages.

“I feel proud that the Limca Book of Records has noticed and recognised my skill. My name figures in the list of rare achievers in the book for 2012,” he said.

“Neither am I a polyglot, nor a linguist. I know a bit of the languages I compose on computer. It is simply workable knowledge. The vernacular language software loaded in my computer eases my work. But the task is difficult and arduous,” he said.

Patra said that most of the languages he handled were completely foreign to him. “But in the process, I have been able to grasp some of the languages, such as Bengali, Assamese, Punjabi and Telugu. While composing the matter, I have learnt some of these languages.”

Composing texts in Odia, Bengali and Assamese is more difficult than other Indian languages, he said.

Patra, who has a postgraduate diploma in computer application, mostly devotes his leisure in composition work. After office hours, he switches on the computer and literally plays languages with the keyboard.

“Many call me eccentric. But they have been silenced after my work received this recognition. Mostly, people across literary circles appreciate my skill,” he said.