Sandeep Sahu is a senior Bhubaneswar based journalist with over 35 years of work behind him. Starting out with leading Odia daily ‘Sambad’ way back in 1985, he has worked for a host of top local, national and international media houses. He has been reporting for the BBC World Service from Odisha for over 25 years now and has reported for ‘Outlook’ magazine from May 2018 to December, 2021. Besides, he has written for a host of national news websites like thequint.com, news18.com, firstpost.com and thefederal.in at various times. He has worked as Editorial Director of OTV, the No. 1 Odia news channel and now writes a popular column “Scandeep” on the OTV site. He is among very few journalists in the state who writes in three different languages: Odia, Hindi and English. Apart from his journalistic work, he has written scripts for scores of documentaries, telefilms and TV serials: in Odia, English and Hindi.