Rast Goftar

Rast Goftar
TypeDaily newspaper (defunct)
Founder(s)Dadabhai Naoroji
Founded1851
LanguageEnglish, Gujarati

Rast Goftar (transl. The Truth Teller) was an Anglo-Gujarati paper operating in Bombay that was started in 1854 by Dadabhai Naoroji and Kharshedji Cama and championed social reform among Parsis in Western India. "Rast Goftar" is farsi, it also had a Sanskrit/Gujarati "Satya Prakash" subtitle since 1861 as a result of merging of "Satya Prakash" started in 1852 by Karsandas Mulji. It was edited by Kaikhosro Nowroji Kabraji during 1864-1904.[1] Kabraji also edited "Streebodh" which was edited by his daughter-in-law Putlaibai Kabraji until 1942.