What a tragedy that Sikhs started this paper which is turnedas to-days anti Sikh newspaper Hindustan Times;-----------------------------------------------------------------I am glad today if Pandit Madan Mohan ji Malaviya has been given BHARAT RATNA ,as his association with SIKHS/PUNJABIS/INDIA/UNTOUCHABLES /INDIA.I will certainly say he was a great SCHOLAR even his GUAD BRAHMIN COMMUNITY once disowned HIM.,,,there is no coverage in 24 DECEMBER as well 25 DEC. of AJIT for HIM. Even I saw in many newspaper...of INDIA.1)- Pandit Madan Mohan ji Malaviya had said if U want to free INDIA ,THEN MAKE UR first son a Sikh2)- Asked SIKHS to start HINDUSTAN TIMES...Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya and Master Tara Singh wereamong the members of the Managing Committee3)- After the Jallian wala Bagh incident, police arrested Master Sunder Singh and charged him for murder. Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya, the brilliant educationist and lawyer,fought his case and managed to scrap the sentence to eighteen months imprisonment.Hindustan Times was founded in 1924 by Sunder Singh Lyallpuri, founder-father of the Akali movement and the Shiromani Akali Dal in Punjab.[8] S Mangal Singh Gill (Tesildar) and S. Chanchal Singh (Jandiala, Jalandhar) weremade in charge of the newspaper. Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya and Master Tara Singh were among the members of the Managing Committee. The Managing Chairman and Chief Patron was Master Sunder Singh Lyallpuri.K. M. Panikkar was its first editor with Devdas Gandhi (son of Mahatma Gandhi) on the editors panel.[9] The opening ceremony was performed by Mahatma Gandhi on 26 September 1924. The first issue was published from Naya Bazar, Delhi (now Swami Sharda Nand Marg). It contained writings and articles from C. F. Andrews, St. Nihal Singh, Maulana Mohammad Ali, C. R. Reddy (Dr. Cattamanchi Ramalinga Reddy), T. L. Vaswani, Ruchi Ram Sahni, BernardHaton, Harinder Nath Chattopadhyaya,Dr Saifuddin Kichlu and Rubi Waston etc.Sadar Panikkar launched the Hindustan Times as a serious nationalist newspaper. As an Oxonian, historian, and litterateur, Panikkar must have hoped to make his paper eventually more than an Akali sheet. He became the editor and funds flowed freely from activist Akali patrons. He exerted himself strenuously, but the paper made very little headway. In two years Panikkar could not take the print order any higher than 3,000. By then the Akali movement appeared to lose steam and funds dried up. The paper was saved from an untimely demise when Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya stepped in to realise his vision of a newspaper in Delhi.After the Jallian wala Bagh incident, police arrested Master Sunder Singh and charged him for murder. Pandit Madan Mohan ji Malviya, the brilliant educationist and lawyer, fought his case and managed to scrap the sentence to eighteen months imprisonment at Andaman Nicobar Islands, though the fine cost him his ancestral land.On release, he started Akali, the best-selling Punjabi daily ofits time. Akali had a nationalist tone which instantly grew loud enough for the British to notice and subsequently silence it. Master Sunder was arrested and the paper was shut down for a brief period. Soon the Urdu version was also published and on Pandit Malviyas advice, Master Sunder Singh started “Hindustan Times”, the English newspaper. Initially the financial aid from Sikhs of America provided for the paper but due to frequent official clamp downs and financial issues, it could not continue. Pandit Malviya ran the paper for a while but soon it was sold to Ghanshyam Das Birla. A congressman to the core of his heart, Master wore khaddar for most of his life, believed in complete autonomy and equal rights for minorities.Excerpts from a letter byKhorana ji.
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