Keshub Chunder Sen established the Indian Reform Association on returning from England in 1870.
One of the things that impressed him was the immense power of the press, particularly the daily newspaper in England.
Umanath Gupta was the first editor of this cheap journal for the information of the masses.
It was avidly read by common people who were for brought in touch with events that were happening around them.
The weekly dealt with diverse subjects such as the miserable condition of the peasants, the administrative system, measures for the uplift of the common people and their education, abuses of the zamindari system and exploitation by the zamindars, abuses of the British administration, importance of science and scientific explanations in elementary form, diseases of the human body and their remedies, and prices of commodities, apart from general news from urban and rural areas.