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Pooja Bhula

Who Owns Your Media: Jagran Group and the story of India’s most read daily

“Puran Chandraji was a freedom fighter, revolutionary, journalist and an entrepreneur...He chose the path of journalism to serve the people of India.”

This is what Dr Manmohan Singh said in 2012 while releasing a postage stamp honouring Puran Chandra Gupta, founder of the Jagran group – best known for Dainik Jagran. Gupta had also served as chairman of the Press Trust of India for two years.

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