Quit India’ Movement and Freedom Struggle

Pages:107-108
Seema Thakran and P.P. Khatri (Department of English, Singhania University, Pacheri Bari, Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan)

The Indian newspapers rubbed shoulders with the freedom fighters during the struggle for freedom. They demonstrated the role of the participant journalist all through the freedom struggle. They rebelled against the British rule, created public opinion and made deities out of the freedom fighters. The story of our freedom struggle is incomplete without a mention of the newspapers either published or patronized by the most prominent freedom fighters, Ram Mohan Roy with Sambad Kaumudi, Bal Gangadhar Tilak with Mahratta ,Gandhi with his Young India and Harijan, Motilal Nehru with Independent , Jawaharlal Nehru with National Herald and Dyal Singh Majithia with The Tribune. The aim of the Tribune was as its name imparts fairly and temperately to advance the cause of the mute masses.’ The aim of the newspaper was to spread the doctrine of Indian nationalism and to bring about unity in a society that was afflicted by differences on questions of religion, caste, language and region. Nehru BK [1998]. It has been doing just that.