{"id":2388,"date":"2020-11-16T14:05:13","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T14:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/IL\/?page_id=2388"},"modified":"2025-08-14T23:38:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T18:08:00","slug":"freedom-first","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/indianliberals.in\/gj\/periodicals\/freedom-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;40px&#8221;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;1872&#8243; img_size=&#8221;243&#215;353&#8243; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][vc_column_text]Freedom First, the Liberal Monthly, now in its 60th year of publication, was founded by the late Minoo Masani, author and MP, at a time when free India was just five years old, World War II had ended and the Cold War had begun. As a participant himself in India\u2019s freedom struggle he shared the vision of the leaders who had led us to freedom that, with independence, our country would launch towards the winning of a new world &#8211; the creation of a new society, secular in its foundation, ensuring liberty of thought, belief and action and the realization of economic and social justice for all the citizens of the free republic.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;Issues&#8221; google_fonts=&#8221;font_family:Oswald%3A300%2Cregular%2C700|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal&#8221;][vc_raw_html]JTVCY3VzdG9tX2dyaWRfZm9yX2ZyZWVkb21fZmlyc3QlNUQ=[\/vc_raw_html][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;40px&#8221;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;1872&#8243; img_size=&#8221;243&#215;353&#8243; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][vc_column_text]Freedom First, the Liberal Monthly, now in its 60th year of publication, was founded by the late Minoo Masani, author and MP, at a time when free India was just five years old, World War II had ended and the Cold War had begun. As a participant himself in India\u2019s freedom&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1872,"parent":2088,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","footnotes":""},"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.12.2","language":"gj","enabled_languages":["en","hi","bn","gj","mr"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"hi":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"bn":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"gj":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"mr":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v21.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Freedom First - Indian Liberals<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indianliberals.in\/periodicals\/freedom-first\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Freedom First - Indian Liberals\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/indianliberals.in\/periodicals\/freedom-first\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Indian Liberals\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-14T18:08:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/indianliberals.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/freedom-first.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"243\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"353\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/indianliberals.in\/periodicals\/freedom-first\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/indianliberals.in\/periodicals\/freedom-first\/\",\"name\":\"Freedom First - Indian Liberals\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/indianliberals.in\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2020-11-16T14:05:13+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-14T18:08:00+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/indianliberals.in\/periodicals\/freedom-first\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"gj-IN\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/indianliberals.in\/periodicals\/freedom-first\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/indianliberals.in\/periodicals\/freedom-first\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/indianliberals.in\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Periodicals\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/indianliberals.in\/periodicals\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Freedom First\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/indianliberals.in\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/indianliberals.in\/\",\"name\":\"Indian Liberals\",\"description\":\"An Online Archive of Indian Liberals Works\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/indianliberals.in\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"gj-IN\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Freedom First - Indian Liberals","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/indianliberals.in\/periodicals\/freedom-first\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Freedom First - Indian Liberals","og_url":"https:\/\/indianliberals.in\/periodicals\/freedom-first\/","og_site_name":"Indian Liberals","article_modified_time":"2025-08-14T18:08:00+00:00","og_image":[{"width":243,"height":353,"url":"https:\/\/indianliberals.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/freedom-first.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/indianliberals.in\/periodicals\/freedom-first\/","url":"https:\/\/indianliberals.in\/periodicals\/freedom-first\/","name":"Freedom First - Indian Liberals","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/indianliberals.in\/#website"},"datePublished":"2020-11-16T14:05:13+00:00","dateModified":"2025-08-14T18:08:00+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/indianliberals.in\/periodicals\/freedom-first\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"gj-IN","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/indianliberals.in\/periodicals\/freedom-first\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/indianliberals.in\/periodicals\/freedom-first\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/indianliberals.in\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Periodicals","item":"https:\/\/indianliberals.in\/periodicals\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Freedom First"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/indianliberals.in\/#website","url":"https:\/\/indianliberals.in\/","name":"Indian Liberals","description":"An Online Archive of Indian Liberals Works","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/indianliberals.in\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"gj-IN"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianliberals.in\/gj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianliberals.in\/gj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianliberals.in\/gj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianliberals.in\/gj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianliberals.in\/gj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2388"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/indianliberals.in\/gj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8779,"href":"https:\/\/indianliberals.in\/gj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2388\/revisions\/8779"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianliberals.in\/gj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianliberals.in\/gj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianliberals.in\/gj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}