The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, , in Lahore now in Pakistan. It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is run by a trust comprising five eminent persons as trustees. The Tribune, the largest selling English daily in North India, publishes news and views without any bias or prejudice of any kind.
Restraint and moderation, rather than agitational language and partisanship, are the hallmarks of the newspaper. It is an independent newspaper in the real sense of the term.
Remembering Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia. Chronicling the journey of Pratap Today, both Urdu newspaper Pratap and Hindi counterpart Vir Pratap are history, yet, frayed pages need to be dusted to relate a journey that ends in our present. Chander Mohan. Follow us Connect with us. Six days after Independence and the partition of India, Virendra was still in Lahore.
As his Muslim friends advised him to leave, he toyed with the idea of making a break for the Wagah border in his Adler, the German-made car. But what if he was waylaid on the way? Then he learned that The Tribune had arranged a military escort. They agreed to take him along, and on August 21, both parties left Lahore for Amritsar and reached Independent India safely. He was the son of Mahashay Krishan, the formidable editor who launched the Urdu Pratap in Lahore days before the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Within 12 days, the colonial administration shut it down.
The newspaper reappeared only a year later, but was once again a persistent sore in the eyes of the Raj. This led to its frequent closure, repeated forfeiture of securities, and arrest of the editor and his elder son, Virendra.
