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- He launched The Indian Express and created the Indian
Express Group with various English and regional language
publications.
- In 2000, India Today magazine, named him amongst their
list of "100 People Who Shaped India".
- He was a keen horse racing enthusiast in his younger
days.
- He also obtained good experience in the field of
business and trading from the elders in his family.
- He took to journalism in around 1930 and on
September 05, 1932 he
founded The Indian Express.
- In 1941, he was elected President of the National
Newspaper Editors' Conference.
- Upon independence he was nominated as a member to the
Constituent Assembly of India.
- Goenka played a significant role during the "Emergency"
in India and challenged Indira Gandhi.
- In the first post-independence elections, held in 1952,
Goenka contested from Tindivanam seat (Madras Province) as
Congress candidate, but he was defeated by a candidate who
favoured Tamil nationalism and who was supported by the
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam.
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