page_title: Ramananda Chatterjee
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Ramananda Chatterjee / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Scanned image of the front cover of Towards Home Rule, written and edited by Ramananda Chatterjee (1865 - 1943) in 1917.
context_page_description: Ramananda Chatterjee was founder, editor, and owner of the Calcutta based magazine, the Modern Review and a leader of the Hindu Mahasabha. He has been described as the father of Indian journalism.
context_section_description: In 1893, he joined the City College as a lecturer. Along with Jagadish Chandra Bose, he founded the children's magazine Mukul with  Sivanath Sastri as the editor. In 1895, he decided to move to Allahabad with a teaching job at the Allahabad Kayastha Pathshala. In 1897, he became the chief editor of Bengali literary magazine Pradip. He, however left Pradip owing to differences in opinion and subsequently launched Prabasi in 1901.
  In 1907, Chatterjee launched the English magazine Modern Review and went on to found two others, the third being the Hindi-language Vishal Bharat.
  He gave a talk on 10 March 1934 to a group of young students summarising his view of the role of newspapering: He spoke of the gathering of news, ideas and facts drawn from by thoughtful people from the world over; it needs to be put down in a language that a person in the street can understand; the faithful coverage of public opinion must be matched by the boldness to challenge it should that opinion not be pointing in the right direction. A good knowledge of politics and governance is required as well as the history of the rise and fall of nations, economics, social sciences and even insurance. Other issues are the worldwide struggles of labour, the trials that beset women and varying religious beliefs. These need to be properly displayed on the pages with the postings of special correspondents, book reviews, letters and  pictures.
caption: Towards Home Rule, written in 1917.
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