Jain Journal 1978 04

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

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APRIL, 1978
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a circulation of a thousand copies or more are very few and are considered lucky. They, too, are self-sufficient only when they have not to pay any salary or even honorarium to their editors and any remuneration to their contributors. In fact, very few Jaina journals possess paid editors and except two or three none of them pays anything to their contributors. For the same reason, few of them get advertisements worth the name, and those that do get some, it is by way of donation or charity. Very many of these papers possess a narrow outlook and cater principally to the ideology of their sponsors and supporters. There are some very narrowminded, die-hard conservatives, too, who oppose every change, reform or independent thinking and try to retard the progress that has otherwise been made. There is also little of healthy literary criticism-reviewers of books generally fear lest they should displease the authors who, instead of thanking the critic, are prone to take offence easily, and despite sincere attempts of a number of broad-minded journalists in the matter of integration of the community, sectwise, castewise and ideologywise even within a sect or subsect, not much advance has been made. The list of desiderata is not exhaustive.
Yet, keeping in view the numerical strength of the community, the number and variety of its journals, the good work done, and the promise it holds. Jaina journalism, with its experience of more than a hundred years, occupies not an insignificant place in Inidan journalism. We hope it will play a conspicuous role in helping the progress of its culture, community and the Indian nation, and in promoting world opinion in favour of the Ahimsa culture and peaceful coexistence.