Amazon Quiz (October 22, 2021): Which of these, the second non-English newspaper to be published in India, turned 200 in 2021?
A. Dainik Bhaskar
B. Mumbai Samachar
C. Dainik Jagran
D. Amar Ujala
Answer: Mumbai Samachar.
The Bombay Samachar, now known as the Mumbai Samachar, is the oldest continously published newspaper in India. It was established in 1822 by Fardunzee Marzban and is published in Gujrati and English. It is also the oldest continously published newspaper in Asia.
It was first published on July 1, 1822 and consisted of three quarto sheets measuring 10 inches by 8 inches and a half sheet supplement in all containing 14 pages of printed matter.
A weekly till 1832, a bi-weekly till 1855
and a daily since then, it continued to grow and has gone on to become one of
Western India’s premier newspapers, well read by a large segment of
Gujarati-speaking people both in India and abroad.
The founder, a Parsi scholar and priest by
the name of Fardoonji Murazban, was a pioneer not only of journalism in Western
India but of all Gujarati printed literature. He founded the first native press
in 1812 and in 1814 brought out a Gujarati Calendar, estimated to be six years
before the first Bengali calendar was printed and published in Calcutta. He
then went on to bring out his Newspaper, the Bombay Samachar, in 1822.
The paper passed through various hands
before coming into the hands of the Cama Family, its present publishers in
1933, and Hormusji N Cama, the present director of the publication.
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