Co-authors of the book ‘Pratap: A Defiant Newspaper’, Chander Mohan and Jyotsana Mohan were in Chandigarh for a book signing event on Thursday. The event was followed by an interactive session at the Chandigarh Club.
The Urdu newspaper ‘Pratap’ and its Hindi counterpart ‘Vir Pratap’ had a long and eventful history. Launched by Mahashay Krishan on March 30, 1919, and ably carried on by his son Virendra and later his grandson Chander, it was a torchbearer against the British Raj that covered all the major events during India’s struggle for independence and after, until it wound up in 2017.
This book chronicles the exciting lives of the newspapers, their founder and editors, as well as landmark events of Indian history, from Independence to the Emergency and Operation Blue Star. Pratap was known for its bold stance, which lead to it being shut down for a year by the British administration within twelve days of its launch, the arrest of its founder and editors-in-chief multiple times, and even a parcel bomb being delivered to its office in 1983.
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