Gourishankar Ray Bio

 Gourishankar Ray was born in 1838 ,in a Bengali family at Dikshitpara in the district of Cuttack. After receiving informal education in Oriya, Urdu and Persian in his native village, he came to Cuttack for studies, whereafter he joined a college at Hoogly for higher studies. He returned to Odisha, joined the Commissioner’s Office, Cuttack, as a clerk, and later rose to be a ‘translator’ in the Cuttack Collectorate.With the help of a few friends he set up the Cuttack Printing Company and started editing Utkal deepika, a weekly newspaper, for the benefit of the people of Odisha.

He was associated with the paper for more than half a century, and is regarded as the father of journalism in Odisha. Utkal deepika became the centre of socio-cultural and political activities in the state. A good number of classical and puranic literature in Odisha,written on palm leaf, was decaying. He collected the material and got it printed with correct reading and notes.

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