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{{short description|Bengali journalist and editor}}
'''Kali Nath Roy''' (1878 – 9 December 1945) was a [[Bengalis|Bengali]] nationalist journalist and the Chief Editor of the newspaper [[The Tribune (Chandigarh)|The Tribune]]. His son [[Samarendra Nath Roy]] was a mathematician and applied statistician.<ref name="Vol - I 2002">{{Cite book|title=Sansab Bangali Charitavidhan (Bengali)|last=Vol - I|first=Subodh C. Sengupta & Anjali Basu|publisher=Sahitya Sansad|year=2002|isbn=81-85626-65-0|location=Kolkata|pages=88}}</ref>

==Early life==
Roy was born in 1878 at [[Jessore District|Jessore]], [[British India]]. While studying F.A. in [[Scottish Church College]] in [[Kolkata]] he joined in anti British movement and left college. He started work as sub editor of Bengali Magazine, edited by [[Surendranath Banerjee]].<ref name="Vol - I 2002" />

==Career==
In 1911 Roy joined 'The Panjabi' magazine as editor thereafter become the editor-in-chief of the Tribune magazine published from [[Lahore]]. He condemned the atrocities of British police and martial law in his column as well as argued for press liberty.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C52fDgAAQBAJ&q=Kali+Nath+Roy+journalist+editor&pg=RA1-PT174|title=The Congress and Indian Nationalism: Historical Perspectives|last=John L. Hill|date=7 April 2017|isbn=9781351979535|access-date=September 14, 2018}}</ref> Government accused him for publication of seditious writings.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zgkAXH0L5DkC&q=Kali+Nath+Roy+journalist+editor&pg=PA176|title=British Administration and the Amritsar Massacre|last=Benjamin Guy Horniman|year=1984|access-date=September 14, 2018}}</ref> Roy was popular for his fearless, brave articles and known as ''Kali Babu''.<ref name="Uma Das Gupta 2018">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=atJJDwAAQBAJ&q=Kali+Nath+Roy+journalist+editor&pg=PT243|title=Friendships of 'Largeness and Freedom': Andrews, Tagore, and Gandhi|last=Uma Das Gupta|date=4 January 2018|isbn=9780199091690|access-date=September 14, 2018}}</ref> [[Mahatma Gandhi]] praised Roy's political writings in 1932.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sCIf8MM1ZlAC&q=Kali+Nath+Roy+journalist+editor&pg=PA127|title=Handbook of Journalism and Mass Communication|last=Vir Bala Aggarwal, V. S. Gupta|year=2001|isbn=9788170228806|access-date=September 14, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mkgandhi.org/law_lawyers/38babu_kalinath_roy.htm|title=Babu Kalinath Roy|access-date=September 14, 2018}}</ref> During the massacre of the Indians at the hands of the British in the infamous [[Jallianwala Bagh massacre]] in April 1919, The Tribune published a news report titled "Prayer at the Jama Masjid", on 6 April 1919. For this Roy was sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for two years along with a fine of one thousand rupees.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://indiankanoon.org/doc/50741/|title=Kali Nath Roy vs The King-Emperor on 9 December, 1920|website=indiankanoon.org|access-date=September 14, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/1998/98sep09/founder.htm|title=Remembering our founder|access-date=September 14, 2018}}</ref><ref name="Uma Das Gupta 2018" /> Lahore based Bengali advocate Sudhir Mukhopadhyay pleaded and defended for him in the Court and people collected money to run the case. Even [[Rabindranath Tagore]] tried personally for his release.<ref name="Vol - I 2002" />

== Death ==
Roy's health declined rapidly in the severe winter of Lahore. He left Lahore on 1 December 1945, caught a chill during the journey and died on 9 December 1945 in Kolkata.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g1c-DwAAQBAJ&q=Kali+Nath+Roy+journalist+editor&pg=PT248|title=History of Indian Journalism|last=J. Natarajan|year=1955|isbn=9788123026381|access-date=September 14, 2018}}</ref>

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