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With many printing presses and lot many newspapers around, the journalists in Jammu and Kashmir attempted and constituted many associations to articulate the issue the media was confronted with.
Not only did the veteran journalist ensure that 'Jan Morcha' ran proudly for over six decades and continues to do so, his presence also gave it rare prestige.
Successive rulers before and after 1947 have remained reluctant in encouraging English journalism in Jammu and Kashmir. Fighting odds, restrictions and outright denial of permissions, the English media always existed in the erstwhile state but never became the mainstay.
It took a long time to undo the government’s monopoly over the printing press. Scholar Nayeem Showkat details the evolution of the printing facility and allied newspaper sector in Jammu and Kashmir since 1858 Four centuries past the invention of Gutenberg’s press, dotted by fervent production o...
Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the USA defined democracy as “the government of the people, for the people and by the people.”