Kakalbhai Ravjibhai Kothari

Kakalbhai Ravjibhai Kothari was an Indian freedom fighter, journalist, editor, and social reformer from the Kathiawar region of present-day Gujarat. His contributions were majorly to the struggle of the Indians to get independence especially in his pioneering work on the Gujarati press. Kothari was also a person active in the mobilization of the nationalist cause and expressing the interests of the population in the princely colonials of the time. He was the founder of The Prabhat, a newspaper and piece of Media in Gujarati language, which has been continuously published for over 90 years.