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Who Owns Your Media: Prabhat Khabar’s rise from the ashes to becoming a regional powerhouse

Post independence, even after the reorganisation of India’s internal boundaries with the implementation of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956, new states continued to be carved out. Not on linguistic lines as the Act had done, but reportedly to meet regional demands and address inequalities in regional development.

Newslaundry · Jul 3, 2024

Who Owns Your Media: Once dethroned, how Rajasthan Patrika bounced back to pole position

While several legacy publications in India were inspired by the freedom struggle and often conceived to give voice to it, Rajasthan Patrika was started to achieve a different freedom – a desire for independent media.

Newslaundry · Dec 26, 2023

Who Owns Your Media: On a high after the pandemic, the ups and downs of Amar Ujala

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…

Newslaundry · Jan 16, 2023

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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.”

Newslaundry · Sep 19, 2022

What moralistic takes on Adani-NDTV saga miss

Barely a few years after India’s independence, Jawaharlal Nehru used the phrase “jute press” to refer to the leading barons of Indian media. The phrase was a thinly-veiled dig at some of the prominent newspapers owners – like the Jains, Birlas and Goenkas – who had first made money in…

Newslaundry · Sep 7, 2022

Why The Hindu might be pushing civil services aspirants to the Left

On August 2, 1922, British Prime Minister David Lloyd George addressed the parliament about the administrative edifice in India. It was over 125 years since Charles Cornwallis had sown the seeds of the Indian Civil Service in 1793. Seventy years had passed since the Macaulay Committee institutionalised it as a…

Newslaundry · Jan 10, 2020

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