e/Samaja

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has gloss	eng: The Samaja, a leading Oriya daily published from Cuttack, Orissa, India. Started in 1919,it is perhaps the oldest existing Oriya newspaper in Orissa. Utkalamani Gopabandhu Das, a prominent freedom fighter and social worker started this paper as a weekly from Satyabadi of Puri district of Orissa with the aim to facilitate freedom struggle and to give life to already moribund Oriya language. Under the able leadership of Gopabandhu and with active support of eminent persons like Acharya Harihara Das, Radhanath Rath, the paper grew into prominence. In 1928, just before the death of Gopabandhu, the paper was handed over to Lok Sevak Mandal (Servants of People Society), a non-profit organization started by freedom-fighter Lala Lajapatrai. The paper is still being run by Lok Sevak Mandal.
lexicalization	eng: Samaja
instance of	c/Newspapers published in India