Question

Discuss the role of Lala Lajpat Rai as a writer and journalist.

Answer 1

Lala Lajpat Rai was a journalist and a writer. He started the newspaper called, ‘The Young India’. He propagated his ideas of radical nationalism among the people of India. He wrote biographies of Garibaldi, Mazzini, Shivaji and Swami Dayananda. He wrote books on India’s miserable condition under the British rule in India. He was a fierce speaker, vigorous writer and journalist of very high caliber. He founded the ‘Vande Mataram’ (Urdu Daily) and the ‘People’ (English Weekly). He founded the Tilak School of Politics.