ABSTRACT
The history of journalism is the story of human’s long struggle to communicate freely with fellow human beings.1 In modern times, it has become an indispensable need of both the elite and the masses. The press helps to exchange thoughts on a mass scale in the shortest time. The press has, as a result, helped almost all modern political movements. It has played an important role in spreading political ideologies. This was true even in Tsarist Russia where, before the revolution, the supporters of the government, liberals and revolutionaries competed with one another through their newspapers. Lenin, in his article ‘Where to Begin?’ published in 1901, argued that the most important and immediate task of the socialists was to establish a national newspaper.2 He believed that ‘The newspaper is not only a collective propagandist and a collected agitator, but it is also a collective organiser’.3 In India also, it played a vital role in the socio-political arena despite severe physical limitations in terms of reach and direct influence.
