Warrior of the Fourth Estate: Ramnath Goenka of the Express

by B.G. Verghese

Book Overview

Ramnath Goenka was a man of many parts - freedom fighter, Gandhian worker, politician, merchant, industrialist and newspaper magnate. But more than anything else he was an indomitable warrior for the freedom of the Press, whose frontiers he fearlessly defended and pushed, often at enormous cost to himself. His mission as a newspaper publisher was to empower the citizen, uphold his right to know, and to make all those in power and authority accountable...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670058424
• ISBN13: 9780670058426
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Viking
• Length: 342 Pages