Vikram Kumar
History
September 2021
The Indian Congress organisation has prospered in and via the media for over 100 years. More than a dozen of the 72 members present in Bombay for the inaugural Congress gathering in 1885 were working journalists. Not only did the early and later nationalist leaders gather news for, editorialise in, or even own outright significant vernacular and English-language newspapers—one thinks, for example, of Tilak's Kesari, Surendranath Banerjea's Bengalee, Motilal Nehru's Leader, and Mahatma Gandhi's Young India and Harijan—but they also readily submitted themselves to the inquisitive, frequently innocent probings of foreign Gandhi gave the Congress instruction on how to spin cotton and how to wash linen in public when necessary. When he was prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru elevated the interview given to the preferred foreign or Indian journalist to a high art.
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