Rabi Shankar Pradhan is talking to writer Bhupen Mahapatra on the occassion of 175th birthday of Gaurishnakar Roy who started first Odia magazine Utkal Deepika and is known as father of the language. He tells him that the paper wrote extensively about the famine in Odisha in 1858 and that’s how British came to know about it and took some action. Otherwise there was no other way to communicate at that time. For more Rabi Ji can be reached at 09938794504