The Daily Post

The Daily Post is a Bombay newspaper whose growth links family wealth and transport contracts to an expanding media business. After Ranjit Choudry took charge, the paper became the venture through which he established himself in publishing and moved into independent television production.

Acquisition and Family Ownership

Ramprakash Choudry, a truck driver who built a fortune resupplying coastal towns in Bangladesh after cyclones, began with government tenders that expanded into major contracts. The resulting transport enterprise grew to include fleets of trucks and, eventually, chartered aircraft and ships. As part of a merger with a more diversified transport and communications firm, Ramprakash acquired a small-circulation Bombay newspaper. He then handed it to his son Ranjit, connecting the paper’s ownership to the family’s broader commercial expansion.

Ranjit Choudry’s Management

Ranjit had recently graduated with a business degree when he took over the newspaper. He was the first person on either side of his family to complete high school and attend any form of further-education college. He rebadged the paper as The Daily Post and ran it for eight years. Under his management, its success provided a route into the emerging field of independent television production, making the newspaper the starting point of a wider media career.

Editorial Role and Significance

The Daily Post is presented as one part of Ranjit’s developing media influence, rather than as an isolated publication: the paper’s success enabled his expansion from print into television. When he recommends that a writer take stories elsewhere, he distinguishes The Daily Post from The Noonday, describing the latter as the more suitable forum and stressing that he has not shown the work without permission. The exchange establishes that Ranjit’s newspaper has its own editorial limits, while also portraying its owner as a well-connected figure able to direct a writer toward another publication.