Aftab : journal of Delhi started in 1906 by Syed Haider Reza. In a group photograph taken at Surat in December 1907, he sat beside Tilak & Sri Aurobindo. The others in the photograph are Ashwini K. Dutt, Sardar Ajīt Singh, G.K. Khaparde, Dr. Moonje, Kooverji Desai, & Rāmaswami. In 1908, the British suppressed Aftab along with the other influential Nationalist papers.
... one journal in the Punjab and the Sandhya and New India in Calcutta, almost entirely Moderate. The increase of Nationalist journals such as the Balbharat and Andhra Keshari in Madras, the Aftab in the North and ourselves in Calcutta, the appearance of local papers filled with the new spirit, the sudden popularity of a paper like the Yugantar and the extent to which the new ideas are infecting ...
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