Shri Akshya Kumar Jain
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A distinguished journalist and writer Shri Akshaya Kumar Jain has held highest positions in the journalistic field in the country.
He was born at Bijaigarh in Distt. Aligarh (U.P.) on December 30, 1915. His father Diwan Roop Kishore Jain was a creative writer.
Shri A.K. Jain passed B.A. from Holkar College, Indore in 1938 and LL.B. from Aligarh University in 1940. He participated in Quit India Movement of 1942.
He started his journalistic career from "Daily Sainik" in 1939, was Editor of 'Sudershan' weekly in 1940 published from Etah and worked in several magazines and edited "Vir" during 1940-46. He was associated with the popular Hindi daily newspaper "Navbharat Times" since its inception in 1946 and retired as its Editor-in-Chief in 1977.
Twice President of All-India Newspapers Editors Conference during 1964-67, Shri Jain was a Member of two Press Councils of India since 1967. He is Chairman of Board of Directors of Samachar Bharati which is a multi-lingual news agency. He has been a Member of International Press Institute and President of Hindi Patrakar Sangh.
Shri Jain has visited U. S. A., Russia and European countries on government invitations. He was Member of the delagation which took the bust of late Prime Minister Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri to Tashkent (Russia) in 1968.
He was bestowed with the title of 'Padma Bhushan' in 1968 but as a keen lover of mother tongue Hindi. He surrendered it in the same year expressing resentment over anti Hindi policy of Central government. He has been honoured with the title of "Sahitya Ratna" in November 1970.
Shri Jain holds highly respectable place in social, religious and civic circles and is widely known in the country. He was President of All-India Digambar Jain Parishad during 1967-68.
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Source : From 'Progressive Jains' Authored By Mr. Satish Kumar Jain
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