Nilambar Rath is a communication specialist, documentary filmmaker, veteran journalist, media educator and entrepreneur with a 3-decade long active career in the industry.

He is the former editor of ETV Network, News18 Odia and Naxatra News. During his television days, he has led the news floors and the management at various leading regional and national media organizations.

Mr Nilambar forayed into media entrepreneurship in 2012 when he founded OdishaLIVE, a homegrown web channel network of Odisha. The media organization produces compelling news & features in text and video formats, accessible through its web portal www.odisha.live, along with popular social media platforms including OdishaLIVE YouTube which has crossed 1M Subscribers mark. Over the years, OdishaLIVE has turned into a digital repository of Indian art, culture, history, heritage, language, people, events, startups & entrepreneurship and much more.

OdishaLIVE also runs a leading media and communication services wing offering high-quality media & digital services to the government departments, corporate and UN agencies etc. with its HQs at smart city Bhubaneswar.