Launched in 1938 as a daily newspaper in the vanguard of the Indian Freedom Movement by Pundit Jawarharlal Nehru, the National Herald proudly proclaimed its commitment on its masthead inscribed in Pundit Nehru’s hand: Freedom is in peril, Defend it with All Your Might. The newspaper shared the vision of its founder and the best values of the Freedom Movement – that of building a modern, democratic, just, equitable, liberal and socially harmonious nation, free of sectarian strife. During its halcyon days even in decades after independence, the National Herald group of newspapers, including also Navjivan in Hindi and QAUMI AWAZ in Urdu, lent its influential voice to the efforts of building such a nation striving for world peace and imbued with rationality and scientific temper that its founder had inculcated.