''Navjivan India'' (
Hindi
Modern Standard Hindi (, ), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the Standard language, standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in the Devanagari script. It is an official language of India, official language of the Government ...
: India) is an Indian newspaper published by The Associated Journals Ltd who have been publishing the daily ''Navjivan'' since 1 November 1947.
[ Prior to this, a newspaper called ''Navjivan'' was published by Indian activist and leader ]Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2October 186930January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalism, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethics, political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful Indian ...
, and The Associate Journals started publishing ''Navjivan'' with his permission.[
Similar to publications like the '']National Herald
The ''National Herald'' is an Indian English-language newspaper published by The Associated Journals Ltd, and owned by Young India Limited, a company by Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi, and Shiva Publications, a partnership firm by Vishnu Goyal ...
'' and '' Qaumi Awaz'', ''Navajivan'' was also started with the intention to promote the principles of Mahatma Gandhi's Indian independence movement
The Indian independence movement was a series of historic events in South Asia with the ultimate aim of ending British Raj, British colonial rule. It lasted until 1947, when the Indian Independence Act 1947 was passed.
The first nationalistic ...
and Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru (14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist, secular humanist, social democrat, and statesman who was a central figure in India during the middle of the 20th century. Nehru was a pr ...
’s vision of modern India. The main objective of the newspaper was to inform and influence readers who supported the creation of democratic, liberal, and modern India. The aim of the newspaper was to speed up the propagation of the values of Gandhi: the interest in modernization, democracy, justice reform, liberal social harmony of the independence movement.
History
The newspaper, ''Navajivan,'' the de facto precursor to ''Navjivan India'' was originally founded and published by Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru (14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist, secular humanist, social democrat, and statesman who was a central figure in India during the middle of the 20th century. Nehru was a pr ...
. In the early 20th century, the daily ''Navajivan'' and the Urdu newspaper ''Quami Awaz'' gave voice to the efforts of their influential leaders to create a nation that was determined to meet the world peace, scientific and logical criterion.[
In 1920, Navajivan also published a detailed operating procedure, outlining management of the ]Spanish flu pandemic
The 1918–1920 flu pandemic, also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or by the common misnomer Spanish flu, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 subtype of the influenza A virus. The earliest document ...
, written by Mahatma Gandhi himself.
Official re-launch
In March 2016, The Associated Journals Ltd. decided to revive the media outlet in digital form. On 1 October 2016, it announced the appointment of Neelabh Mishra as the editor in chief of the National Herald Group.[{{cite news, author=ANI , url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ani/congress-to-relaunch-national-herald-today-117061200069_1.html , title=Congress to relaunch 'National Herald' today | Business Standard News , newspaper=Business Standard India , publisher=Business-standard.com , date= 12 June 2017, accessdate=2018-08-11]
References
Hindi-language newspapers