India had just been freed of British rule. Yet British-established English dailies were the dominant media. At such a time, Murari Lal Maheshwari and Dori Lal Agarwal decided to start a news and current affairs newspaper. The objective, states their publication’s website, was “promoting social awakening and introducing a feeling of responsibility among the citizens of a recently independent India, heading towards building a new India.”
And so, in the summer of 1948, the duo launched the Hindi daily, Amar Ujala.
