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Friday, November 23, 2012

Prez releases commemorative stamp on late Ramgopal Maheshwari

The President of India Pranab Mukherjee on 20 November 2012 released a Commemorative Postage Stamp on late Ramgopal Maheshwari. The stamp was released in the Rastrapati Bhavan on the occasion of Maheshwari’s birth centenary year celebration. 

Ramgopal Maheshwari

Ramgopal Maheshwari was a freedom fighter and a social worker is also regarded as a doyen of Journalism in India. He was a person who worked for promotion of Hindi Language. 

During the Indian freedom struggle, Ram Gopal Maheshwari took the responsibility to mobilize central India and started a Hindi daily newspaper named Nava Bharat in the year 1934 from Nagpur. He is also termed as the Bhishma Pitamah of Journalism in Central and Western India. Maheshwari also played a major role in eradication of conservative customs of Maheshwari Samaj and took it onto the progressive ways.

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