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THREAD | Message from Arnab: From a dream of a few journalists to India’s Number 1 news network

4 years back, the REPUBLIC MEDIA NETWORK was born.

Today with 1250 members, 3 leading channels, a massive digital presence and reaching over 30 crore Indians every week, we are ready for the next phase of growth.

In our journey, the immeasurable love, support, warmth, faith & constant goodwill of hundreds of millions of REPUBLIC viewers & believers has made us overcome every test & hardship. It has made us convert every battle into an opportunity & every conspiracy into deeper resolve.

Nationalism is at our core. The Nation needs a media that puts NATION FIRST. REPUBLIC will lead this wave into the future. In doing so, we will expand into languages and explore different mediums and geographies.

We have built a future-ready news media organisation that is protected by the sheer independence of ownership and management. Our independent structure has no parallel in this country and is the most unique in the entire world.

Now home to most cutting-edge talent in news, television & digital production, REPUBLIC has, in the last 1 year built a dream digital hub with in-house technology & design expertise, readied itself to be the numero uno digital & TV news future-ready, tech-led news organisation.

Four years have made us even firmer believers in the dream we started with. The dream of a new entrepreneurial news media that challenges and defeats those who represent the status quo of decades.

This dream has turned into a marvelous reality, thwarting in the process the entrenched conspiracies of those who cannot compete on merit alone. The dream has become a reality because there are more people who believe in a new India than those who will work against it.

There are more people in this country who know that the Nation will win than those who sit in their ivory towers trying to pull it down.

To everyone at the REPUBLIC MEDIA NETWORK: My congratulations on building and being a big part of India’s PRESENT & FUTURE number one news network.

To our hundreds of millions of followers in every part of the country: I can never in words express my thanks, but we are forever in your debt. We will work with honesty strength and passion to build a new India. Nothing can touch us when you are by our side.

In these difficult times of COVID-19, we will perform our national service and we shall all overcome - Arnab Goswami.