Dear Comrades,
The Indian Postal
Department has recently issued a stamp honouring the memory of Karpoor
Chandra ‘Kulish’, the founder of Rajasthan Patrika.
At a brief programme organised on the
occasion of presentation of the stamp to Prime Minister Dr Manmohan
Singh, Gulab Kothari, Group Chairman & Chief Editor, Patrika Group,
informed him about the various journalistic campaigns being run in the
states of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. Also present was
Sachin Pilot, Minister of State for Communications & Information
Technology.
The Prime Minister appreciated Patrika by
saying that in the scenario when media does not any more considers good
news as news, Patrika’s news illumining the readers on all good and bad
aspects gives satisfaction. He expressed hope that Patrika shall
maintain its sharpness in future as well.
Karpoor Chandra 'Kulish', the man who
started Rajasthan Patrika as an evening newspaper and took it to the
heights of glory, was a visionary par excellence, who had lived the
ideal as embodied in the oft-quoted Puranic aphorism
‘charaiveti-charaiveti’ (move on and on and rest not), and above all, a
man of extraordinary versatility as reflected in his ability to convert a
small newspaper into an unmatched daily of Rajasthan.
He was a brilliant journalist, a scholar
of Vedas, a thinker, a philosopher and a poet. When he was in his early
twenties, much before he had achieved anything worthy of mention, he had
awarded himself the appellation of 'Kulish' – the Invincible One.
Karpoor Chandra was born on March 20,
1926 in a relatively unknown village called Soda, which was a part of
the erstwhile state of Diggi and Lawa of Tonk district in Rajasthan. He
is best remembered for his fearless journalism and was a voracious
reader and versatile writer. His famous compilation of all existing 11
Samhitas of four Vedas, titled as ‘Shabd Vedas’, has been a rare work.
He gave talks at the Universities of Bonn
and Hamburg, the Institute of Indology in Frankfurt and the
International Forum for a Better World, Cologne.His talks had also been
serialized by the BBC, Voice of America and Voice of Germany.
Today, Patrika Group is the second
largest Hindi newspaper group of India (as per ABC July-December 2011).
Rajasthan Patrika reaches more than 19 million readers every day through
its over 2.3 million circulated copies all over India. The Group has
its presence in seven states with 30 editions covering a major portion
of the India’s heartland.
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