Bhubaneswar, April 18 -- Bhubaneswar: With the motto of 'We Report, You Decide,' the Odisha Television Network (OTV), the State's first and by far the largest media house began its impressive journey on this very day in 1997.

Today, OTV celebrates its 24th Birthday with a heavy heart as the day marks the funeral of the Tall Man, the late Bijayananda Patnaik or Biju babu as he was fondly called, to the Swarga Dwar in Puri on April 18, 1997. In fact, OTV's maiden live telecast on its launch glued people to their television sets with grief-filled hearts as the last rites of their beloved leader, Biju Babu, was performed in Puri.

Not only leaders from Odisha's political spectrum but bigwigs from the national political arena too joined in Bi...