Keywords- The Statesman, Kesari, Mirat-ul-Akhbar, The Hindu, Kasturi Ranga Iyenger, Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Tilak, C R Irani

Asked in Paper II- June 2006

Person	Publications
C R Irani	The Statesman
Tilak	Kesari
Raja Ram Mohan Roy	Mirat-ul-Akhbar
Kasturi Ranga Iyenger	The Hindu

Explanation-

The Statesman

• Format- Broadsheet
• Owner- The statesman Ltd
• Language- English
• Founded in- 1875
• Founded by- Robert Knight
• Periodicity- Daily
• Group- Asia News Network
• Editor-in-chief- Ravindra Kumar
• It opposed the shifting of India’s capital from Calcutta to New Delhi in 1911.
• Cushrow Russi Irani was a prominent Indian journalist and the editor-in-chief of The Statesman.

Kesari

• Language- Marathi
• Founded in- 1881
• Founded by- Bal Gangadhar Tilak
• Published by- Kesari Maratha Trust
• Sister Publication- Maratha

Mirat-ul-Akhbar

• Language- Persian
• Founded in- 1822
• Founded by- Raja Rammohan Roy
• Periodicity- Weekly (Friday)
• India’s first Persian newspaper

The Hindu

• Format-Broadsheet
• Language- English
• Founded in- 1878
• Founder- G. Subramania Iyer
• Periodicity- Daily
• Owner- The Hindu Group, and Kasturi and Sons Limited
• Editor in Chief- Mukund Padmanabhan