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Swaminathan Sadanand

Swaminathan Sadanand. Who is he?. Founder of Free Press Agency (FPA). Founder and Managing Editor of Free Press Journal. (FPJ) Founder of Dinamani- A Tamil daily broadsheet. Initial Days.

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Swaminathan Sadanand

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  1. Swaminathan Sadanand

  2. Who is he? • Founder of Free Press Agency (FPA). • Founder and Managing Editor of Free Press Journal. (FPJ) • Founder of Dinamani- A Tamil daily broadsheet

  3. Initial Days • Acclaimed national journalist, S. Sadanand was eldest son of the late Mr. C. V. Swaminathan Aiyar, Editor of the well-known former Tamil Weekly Vivekachintamani. • Educated in Madras City and entered journalism in 1917. • He was in the thick of politics right from the start of his career, was a signatory to the pledge against the Rowlatt Act

  4. Contd.. • As Publicity Officer for the Indian National Congress for a while, he looked after Khadi and Village Industries • After working in Reuter's in 1920, he later became Assistant Editor of The Independent, Allahabad. Then migrated to Rangoon Times. • His desire to start his own news agency was born during this time.

  5. Free Press Agency (FPA)/Free Press News Service • In a bid to counter the pro-British propaganda of Reuters and Associated Press, the only news agencies working in India those days, Sadanand started his Free Press News Service in 1927. • He said that, public opinion was moulded entirely by news supplied on day to daybasis and it was “difficult if not impossible to mould healthy public opinion owing to the monopoly held in the supply of news by subsidised news agencies.”

  6. Contd.. • FPA had a foreign section: London and Washington. • Popularity of the news agency grew and full of the weight of the British was deployed to thwart this enterprise. • Prosecuted by the British Indian Government under Press Laws and convicted in 1930, on appeal he was acquitted.

  7. FPA telegrams subjected to strict censorship and newspapers grew reluctant to publish news supplied by the FPA.

  8. Free Press Journal (FPJ) • After FPA faced strict censorship, Sadanand started the Free Press Journal as a morning daily newspaper in June 1930 from Bombay. • Important FPA scoops include the Chittagong armoury raid case Feb 1933 (K Rama Rao) • Sadanand took over the Indian Express in 1932 from Dr. P. Varadarajulu Naidu and conducted it as a newspaper of the Free Press Journal group.

  9. FPJ Contd… • In 1935 his newspaper’s securities were confiscated, Sadanand had to close down his agency. His newspaper continued. • On a number of occasions, monetary securities were demanded of him making him forfeit more than Rs. 50,000. • Penalty had to be paid for his editorial entitled ‘ Swaraj is the only remedy’ in FPJ and for publishing extracts of an article by Gandhi.

  10. Sadanand covered the Second Round Table Conference in London in 1931 attended by Mahatma Gandhi, and also the Third Round Table Conference in 1933.

  11. His role in post independence era • On 15th of Aug 1947, the nawab of Junagarh-a princely state wanted to merge with Pakistan and had also signed the necessary documents. • Sardar Patel home min) mobilized the troops. Sadanand’s newspaper, Free Press Journal, went ahead and published a report exposing the mobilization of troops by India. • Sadanand’s plan of launching Free Press of India, an international news agency that would be based in India, was throttled after Sardar Patel refused him the necessary government clearance

  12. He died in the year 1950 at St. Isabel's Hospital and Nursing Home, Mylapore. • Sadanand was a fearless journalist freedom fighter. • The spirit with which he launched the paper and ran it for almost three decades helped make it an integral part of two great Indian movements: the struggle for independence and the evolution of Indian publishing.

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