Interesting Media Facts 5
• Of the 72 delegates, who attended the first session of Congress in 1985 a third were journalists including G.Subramania Aiyer (Hindu), Motilal Ghosh (Amrita bazar patrika), Narendranath Sen (Indian Mirror)
• Publishing multi lingual newspapers was quite common in 19th century. A multi-language newspaper Marthand was published from Calcutta, which had editions in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Persian and English, each in five columns. Editor of the paper was Maulavi Nasaruddin. Om 1854 came the Samachar Sudha Varshan in Hindi and Bengali from Calcutta edited by Shyam Sundar Sen.
• Several experiments with language have been done in regional language newspapers. The Benares Akhbar (1845) published from Benaras aimed at evolving a common language for Hindus and Muslims that could be written in the Persian and Nagari script. In 1870 The Simla Akhbar used Devanagari script for Urdu.
• Newspapers were responsible for making language simpler for common people. In several regional languages it was newspaper which tried to bring the language to the level of common man.
• The editor of the first Urdu newspaper Jam-i-Jahan-Numa, which was published from Calcutta in April 1822 was a Hindu. His name was Hari har Dutta.
A German missionary Rev. Hermann Friedrich Mögling brought out the first ever newspaper in Kannada, Mangalooru Samachara, in 1843.
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