In the three decades prior to independence of India , the Reuters news agency and its affiliates , such as the Associated Press of India ( API ) , Eastern News Agency and Indian News Agency Service , had more or less complete control of newswire services in India . They supplied news services to the Government of the British Raj in that country , as well as from India to the international media , and vice versa . Sadanand had worked for API and left that arm of the Reuters monopoly soon after being dismayed by government suppression of reportage concerning the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919 . Thereafter , he worked for the '' Independent '' newspaper in Allahabad and then for the '' Rangoon Times '' in Burma , but he held a desire to break the monopoly , as did Gandhi and others involved in the Indian independence movement
Jallianwala Bagh massacre
Jallianwala Bagh massacre
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