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 64 LIFE OF HURISH CHUNDER MUKHERJEE. HIS CAREER AS A JOURNALIST AND CONTRIBUTOR TO THE PRESS. From his early youth, Hurish Chunder, as he ad- vanced in knowledge of politics, history and literature, shewed a strong predilection for journalism. Babu Kristo Das in his letter dated, Larkin's lane, 25th October 1862, to Mr. Framji Bomanji says that! Hurish Chunder first flashed his pen in the column^ of the Hindoo Intelligencer then conducted by Babu Kashi Prosad Ghose, and " practised public writing in the columns of the Englishman, which was then edit-J "ed by Mr. Cobb Hurry, who in those days was a^ greai friend of the Natives. " Amidst the arduous' duties of his official life, he managed to make time; not only for extensive private studies but trained) himself up as a journalist by writing to the various^ newspapers of the day. Long before he joined the Bri-J tish Indian Association in 1852, which was the besfc training ground for a young politician, ,and long be-i fore he set himself up as a journalist, and the Editor- of the Hindoo Patriot, he had acquired a perfect command over the English language and politics. Wej have the authority of no less a personage than the late Babu Ram Gopal Ghose, who in his speech on the death of Hurish Chunder said that the lamous petition sent from India protesting against the! renewal of the Charter of the East India Company in: 1853, was "drawn up" by Hurish Chunder himself} THE ORIGIN OF THE HINDOO PATRIOT. We transcribe below what we have written on this subject in our work on the life of Kristo Das Pal. Dr* Sumbhoo Chunder Mukherji the Editor of Rets and Rayyet is our authority and informant on the subject.)