Kesari news paper lokmanya tilak biography

Marathi newspaper

This article is about the Marathi newspaper. For other uses, see Kesari (disambiguation).

Kesari (Marathi: केसरीSanskrit for saffron) is a Marathinewspaper which was founded on 4 January 1881 by Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak, a prominent leader of the Indian Independence movement.

The newspaper was used as a spokes piece for the Indian national freedom movement, and continues to be published by the Kesari Maratha Trust and Tilak's descendants.^[1][2][3]

Bal Gangadhar Tilak used to run his two newspapers, Kesari, in Marathi and Mahratta (Run by Kesari-Maratha Trust)^[4] in English from Kesari Wada, Narayan Peth, Pune.

The newspapers were originally started as a co-operative by Chiplunkar, Agarkar and Tilak.

Initial years, editors and writers

The editors of Kesari included a number of freedom fighters and social activists / reformers, including Agarkar (its first editor), C