Question

Name the paper started by Bal Gangadhar Tilak
a. Kesari
b. Gazette
c. The Hindu
d. Shamsul

Answer 1

Hint: Bal Gangadhar Tilak was an Indian nationalist, a freedom activist, and a teacher. He was the Indian Independence Movement's first chief. He was called The father of the Indian uprising" by the British colonial authorities.

Complete answer:
Kesari is a Marathi newspaper published in 1881 by a prominent leader of the Indian Independence movement, Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak. The newspaper was used as a spokesperson for the national freedom movement in India and continues to be published by the descendants of the Kesari Maratha Trust and Tilak.

Bal Gangadhar Tilak used Kesari in Marathi and Mahratta in English, from Kesari Wada, Narayan Peth, Pune, to run his two newspapers. The newspapers were originally started by Chiplunkar, Agarkar and Tilak as a cooperative.

A number of freedom fighters and social activists/reformers, including Agarkar, Chiplunkar and Tilak, were the editors of Kesari. In 1887, Agarkar left Kesari to start his own news publication, Sudharak, after which Tilak continued to run the paper on his own. When Tilak was imprisoned in 1897 and 1908, Narasimha Chintaman Kelkar, a close associate of Tilak, twice served as an editor.

Bal Gangadhar Tilak mentions that after the conclusion of the Kesari Trial of 1897, the letter he received from Swami Vivekananda had to be lost along with many others. An online Marathi newspaper called The Daily Kesari, edited by the great-grandson of Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Deepak Tilak, is currently still being published.

Hence, the correct answer is option A.

Note:
Tilak was one of Swaraj's ("self-rule") first and strongest supporters and a strong radical in the consciousness of India. "In Marathi, he is known for his quote: "Swarajya is my birthright and I will have it!".