Word: ramanath
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...Every bloody so-called journalist in this country looks to the government," cried dhoti-draped Ramanath Goenka, India's top newspaper owner (eight dailies, three weeklies), last week. "I will definitely close down my papers if I have to. There is nothing else to do. They think I'm bluffing." Goenka's outburst was aimed specifically at a government move to raise the wages of Indian newspaper employees. But beyond that, it was aimed at a general situation that last week saw Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's government taking a new hitch in the noose...
...supply of foreign news. Agence France Presse got shut out when its Indian outlet, the independent United Press of India (no kin to United Press International), founded in the 1930s by leaders of the Congress freedom movement, collapsed last fall. United Press International, seeking a contract to supply Ramanath Goenka's chain, has been pointedly discouraged by the government...
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