Jawaharlal Nehru founded the 'National Herald' newspaper in 1938, headquartered in which city?

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Lucknow. Nehru established the National Herald in Lucknow as an English-language platform to advance nationalist and progressive political views during the final years before independence, reflecting the well-established pattern -- seen throughout the freedom struggle from Ram Mohan Roy through Tilak's Kesari to Gandhi's own several newspapers -- of nationalist leaders using journalism as a direct extension of their political activity. The paper continued publication for decades after independence, becoming closely associated with the Congress party and the Nehru-Gandhi political family more broadly, before eventually ceasing regular print publication and becoming the subject of significant political and legal controversy in recent decades over its ownership and finances. Nehru's founding of this paper exemplifies the consistent, decades-long continuity in the nationalist movement's strategic use of the press as a tool for shaping public opinion, from the earliest 19th-century reform-era papers through to the movement's final pre-independence years.

Jawaharlal Nehru founded the ‘National Herald’ newspaper in 1938, headquartered in which city?

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