There is no dearth of web portals providing news and current affairs content from Odisha on a real time basis. But the vast majority of them are in English, catering to the needs of a minuscule percentage of the Odia population. The few existing outlets of news and current affairs are invariably e-papers of mainstream Odia newspapers which, by their nature, are not meant to be forums to access news content on a real time basis. Thus there is a vast population of Odia reading public – both inside