FULL NAME: Satish Sharma
BORN: 1960
FAMILY: Father (Late Madan Lal Sharma, who died in 1983), mother (Uma Rani Sharma, aged 78 years), wife Rajni Sharma and son (Prateek Sharma, aged 21 years, studying civil engineering at Padamanava College of Engineering, Rourkela). Satish also has two brothers and one sister.

HOME ADDRESS: Kansbahal, Sundargarh.
TELEPHONE: 9437040306 (Mobile).
E-MAIL: kblkhabar@kbl.ltindia.com
PROFESSION: Freelance sports journalist for over 30 years.

CAREERE PERFORMANCE/ACHIEVEMENT:

*    Covering all the sports events, competitions, championships of all level held at Rourkela/Sundargarh for the past 30 years.
*    Did profiles/interviews of scores of sportspersons including BS Bedi, Syed Kirmani, TC Yohanan, Syed Modi, Romen Ghosh, Magan Singh, Shabbir Ali, Rajendra Singh, V Bhaskaran, Ramandeep Singh, K Jothikumaran, Micheal Kindo, Sunil Patra, Minati Moahapatra, PM Mohanty, Dilip Tirkey, Jyoti Sunita Kullu, Prabodh Tirkey, William Xalxo and Subhadra Pradhan.
*    Contributed stories and reports to English sports weekly ‘Sportsworld’ (Kolkata) till 1992, English daily ‘The Telegraph’ (Kolkata) from 1996 to 1998.
*    Worked with Hindi Daily ‘Ranchi Express’ (Ranchi) from 1992 to 2001.
*    Associated with Oriya daily ‘Kurukhestra’ (Rourkela) from 1985 to 1987.
*    Associated with Oriya daily ‘Sambad’ since 1987, Hindi daily ‘Hindustan’ since 1994, English weekly ‘India First’ since 2005, Hindi weekly ‘Shukrawar’ and a fortnightly ‘Senior India’ (both published from Delhi).

DATA LAST UPDATED: September 9, 2010.