Sandeep Sahu

Sandeep Sahu is a Bhubaneswar-based senior journalist with over three decades of work behind him. He has been reporting for the BBC World Service from Odisha for over twenty-eight years now. Starting out with the leading Odia daily Sambad in 1986, he has worked for a host of top local, national and international media houses over the years. He also served as the Odisha correspondent for Outlook between May 2018 and December 2021. He writes for a number of national news websites such as Quint, News 18, Firstpost and Federal. He has worked as editorial director of OTV, the No. 1 Odia news channel, and also writes a popular column titled ‘Scandeep’ on the OTV site. He is among the very few journalists in the state who writes in three different languages: Odia, Hindi and English. Apart from his journalistic work, Sahu has written scripts for scores of documentaries, telefilms and TV serials in Odia, English and Hindi. Sandeep tweets @geminianguddu.