Malayalam language

The following newspapers are published in the Malayalam language in India

Mathrubhumi

Mathrubhumi

Type Daily newspaper

Format Broadsheet

Owner The Mathrubhumi Printing and

Publishing Company Ltd.

Publisher P.V.Chandran

Editor M.Kesava Menon

Founded 1923

Political

alignment

Independent[1]

Headquarters Kozhikode

Circulation above 12 lakhs daily

Official website mathrubhumi.com

Mathrubhumi (Malayalam: മാ�തൃ�ഭൂ�മാ�) is a Malayalam language newspaper that is

published from Kerala, India. Mathrubhumi was founded by K. P. Kesava Menon, an

active volunteer in theIndian freedom struggle against the British.

History

Based in the northern Kerala town of Kozhikode (Calicut), Mathrubhumi was founded in

1923 in the aftermath of Gandhi's non-cooperation movement as a public limited

company. This status makes it rare among newspapers, which tend to be closely held

private companies owned by a single family.

The newspaper's founders were members of the Indian National Congress led by K.P.

Kesava Menon (1886- 1978); its shareholders included about 350 men and women of

Kerala. Though Mathrubhumi lost money regularly in its early years, that did not matter,

its historian noted in 1973, because its goals were not those of business but of social

oppression and unrest. It battled gallantly with British authorities before independence

and bitterly with Kerala's Communists from the late 1930s.

By the 1940s, as Kerala's literate and politicised character forced itself to the attention

of officials, the British acknowledged that Mathrubhumi, reaches every village in the

district [of Malabar] and... [a] mischievous attack of the Police [in Mathrubhumi] is likely

to do, a great deal of harm among the mass of the people who are able to read but not

able to think for themselves. Mathrubhumi played important roles in many social

reformation movements such as Vaikom Satyagraha and Guruvayur

Satyagraha against untouchability. Participating in the Satyagraha, K.P. Keasava

Menon was arrested and was sent to Jail. Independence activists such as P.

Ramanunni Nair, K. Kelappan, P. Narayanan Nair, C. H. Kunjappa, K. A. Damodara

Menon, and A. P. Udhayabhanu have served as Chief Editors of the newspaper, and

also mathrubhumi has also witnessed some of the very splendid IAS / Civil Service

officers as editors.

Mathrubhumi was Kerala's leading daily with an estimated circulation of 19,000 at

independence in 1947, which rose quickly to 26,000 by 1952.

The bitter struggle between the Congress and the Communists in Kerala gave a

Congress newspaper not only a reason for existence but a steady supply of electrifying

stories for eager readers. The conduct of the newspaper remained with the old

nationalists who had founded it and who comprised most of the shareholders, most of

whom, it was said, had little idea where they had put their ancient share certificates.

Commercial competition became noticeable after the formation of Kerala state in 1957.

Mathrubhumi had been slow to join the Audit Bureau of Circulations, as its certificate

No. 143 suggests.

A struggle began among the shareholders for control of the company. The 5,000 shares

at Rs 5 each, which had floated the newspaper in 1923, acquired undreamt- of value.

By the 1990s, with control of the newspaper contested, they traded at thousands of

rupees each. The struggle to control Mathrubhumi eventually reached the Supreme

Court of India and illustrated the value of a newspaper and the way in which languages

and local honour provide at least a hindrance to the acquisition of newspapers by

'outside' capitalists.

In 1993, Mathrubhumi's general manager - finance described the financial structure and

compulsions of the company. When the newspaper was floated in the 1920s, 3,479 of

the 5,000 shares were purchased at a nominal fee of Rs 5 each by 352 different

shareholders, 203 of whom bought only one share each. Even in the 1990s, no single

person owned more than 225 shares. Mathrubhumi was a "public limited company in

the true sense". Shareholders elect nine directors for two-year terms, one-third being

elected each year.

The late 1970s brought two important changes. First, the old nationalists, who had run

the newspaper as a kind of public trust, began to disappear. Second, the economic

climate in India and in Kerala began to become more unapologetically capitalist.

Mathrubhumi, which under its old regime was a Kerala institution and also an effectively

run business, came to be seen as a valuable asset. Its control could provide wealth -

and certainly provided influence and prestige. Shares in Mathrubhumi began to be

traded in a way that was inconceivable 10 years earlier. Indeed, when the share book

was tidied up in the mid-1980s, it was found that there were dozens of partly paid-up

shares whose owners were long dead or unknown. Such shares were forfeited, making

the remaining valid shares even more valuable.

A keen contest to control the company began, in which M.P. Veerendra Kumar, a

wealthy planter and political aspirant, who held about 3% of the shares, emerged as the

dominant shareholder and became managing director. In the course of this struggle,

M.D. Nalapat, another shareholder and editor from 1984-87, whose mother, the writer

Kamala Das, also held shares, was forced off the board of directors. Nalapat then broke

the rules as they had existed uptill that time: he sold his shares (at Rs l2,500 each) not

merely outside of Kerala but to India's wealthiest newspaper chain, Bennett, Coleman &

Co., owners of The Times of India in Bombay. Nalapat and his supporters sold close to

20% of the shares in Mathrubhumi. Though this was scarcely a controlling interest,

others saw the sale as the beginning of a Times of India takeover of a Kerala institution,

and, according to Nalapat, an "innate sense of paranoia surfaced". The dominant

shareholders appealed against the sale to the Kerala High Court which ruled that

because The Times of India was a competitor of Mathrubhumi, the sale was invalid.

Some saw the court's decision more as a response to Kerala sentiment than to the

requirements of the law. The Times of India appealed to the Supreme Court of India

where the case was still pending in the mid-1990s.

In 1932 the company entered Magazine Journalism with the launch of Mathrubhumi

Illustrated Weekly. In 1940, Viswaroopam, a comic magazine was launched

with Sanjayan as the Chief Editor. Yugaprabhat, a bi-monthly in Hindi was also

published whose editor was N. V. Krishna Warrier. But now, these two publications are

not in print.

Mathrubhumi is topmost circulated newspaper in Kerala and is headquartered

in Calicut. Inside Kerala, it is published

from Calicut,Thiruvananthapuram, Kottayam, Kochi, Thrissur, Kannur, Palakkad, Malap

puram, Kollam and Alappuzha. Outside Kerala, it is published

fromChennai, Bangalore, Mumbai, and New Delhi. It has a current readership of

94,44,000 as per the Indian Readership Survey 2009 (Round 1)

M. P. Veerendra Kumar, former minister for state, Govt. of India [Janata Dal state

President] is the Chairman and Managing Director of Mathrubhumi. P.V. Chandran is

the Managing Editor. M. Kesava Menon is the Editor of Mathrubhumi daily. M.

V .Shreyams Kumar is the Director-Marketing and P. V. Nidhish is the Director-Editorial

Administration. P. V. Ganagadharan, Industrialist of KTC Group, Calicut is a Director in

Mathrubhumi Board.

Malayala Manorama

Malayala Manorama

Type Daily newspaper

Format Broadsheet

Owner Malayala Manorama Group

Editor-in-chief Mammen Mathew

Founded 1888

Political alignment Pro-Congress

Language Malayalam

Headquarters Kottayam

Circulation 19,03,000 daily

Official website manoramaonline.com

Malayala Manorama (Malayalam: മാലയാ�ള മാനോ��രമാ) is a daily news paper,

in Malayalam language, published in the state of Kerala, India. It was first published as

a weekly on 14 March 1890, and currently has a readership of over 16 million (with a

circulation base of over 1.8 million copies)[citation needed]. The Malayalam word "manorama"

roughly translates to "entertainer". The Week (India), an Indian weekly is also brought

out by the Manorama Group. Manorama Yearbook is another popular yearly publication

by the Kottayam- Kozhikode based Manorama Group. It has 32 publications all over

India in five languages (English, Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil and Bengali)

History

A joint stock publishing company, destined to acquire the status of the first joint stock

publishing company of Republic of India, was incorporated by in 1888 by Kandathil

Varghese Mappillai at Kottayam, then a small town in the Kingdom of Travancore,

currently, a part of Kerala state, India. The first issue of Malayala Manorama was

published on March 22,1890 from the press owned by Malankara

Metropolitan Pulikkottil Joseph Mar Dionysious II of the Indian Orthodox Church. The

name Malayala Manorama was chosen by the poet, Raghavan Nambiar,

Villuvarvattathu from Tiruvalla. Kerala Varma granted the symbol which is a part of the

Travancore kingdom symbol. In a period of two years, from the date of incorporation

until the publication commenced, the company witnessed several challenges. Presently,

it also publishes several other publications, including the english news magazine The

Week (the-week.com), the women's mag Vanitha (in Malayalam and Hindi), an

information oriented monthly called 'Tell Me Why', a children's magazine Balarama and

the men's lifestyle magazine The Man (www.theman.in). The group has also diversified

into TV (Manorama News), radio (Radio Mango), internet (manoramaonline.com)and

programming (Manorama Vision).

Madhyamam Daily

Madhyamam (Malayalam: മാ�ധ്യ�മാ�, meaning Medium) is a Malayalam daily

newspaperpublished from Kerala, India, since 1987.[1]. It was founded in 1987 by the

initiatives ofJamaat-e-Islami Hind.[2] It has 10 editions in India (7 in Kerala and Mumbai,

Bangalore and Mangalore) and its Gulf edition Gulf Madhyamam has 9 in the Middle

East. According to Indian Readership Survey 2009[3] and IRS 2010 Q4, it is the fourth

largest read newspaper in Kerala with a readership of 9.04 lakh readers.[4] [5] Gulf

Madhyamam is the oldest and largest Malayalam newspaper in the Middle East, with

highest number of editions in the Gulf countries than any other daily in the middle east.[6] The newspaper and its team of journalists have bagged nearly ninety awards

including Ramnath Goenka Journalism Award,Statesman Award for Rural

Reporting, PUCL Journalism Award for Human Rights, ESRWorld Journalism Prize and

the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) Developing Asia Journalism Award.[7]

The newspaper exposed multiple stories of land encroachments, farming frauds, and

malpractices in the name of assisted fertility.[7] It also exposed an alleged kidney racket

in tribal settlements in Idukki district of Kerala prompting a public outcry[8] followed by an

in-depth investigation by both the state government[9] and the Indian Medical

Association (IMA)[10] into the incident.

History

Madhyamam began publishing in 1987 at Silver Hills near Calicut. Veteran

journalist, Kuldip Nayar inaugurated the newspaper[13]. Vaikom Muhammad Basheer,

Malayalam writer, described it as "the birth of a silver star". The opening editorial on

June 1, 1987 read:[7]

Madhyamam comes to you, the reader, with a clear sense of purpose... Mass media are

today passing through a period of degeneration. This sphere is not an exception to the

general deterioration of values. The face of truth is being concealed behind the glitter of

gold. In this murky situation we offer wholesome journalism reflective of a healthy

worldview free from narrowness, communalism and extremism. "

The second edition was launched in July 1993 at Cochin followed by the third at

Trivandrum in April 1996.[14] Gulf Madhyamam was first published from Bahrain in 1998

and then from Dubai in 2002 [15]. K C Abdullah, P K Balakrishnan, K A Kodungallur were

among its editors at the early stage.Renowned writer C Radhakrishnan served as its

consultant editor from 1997-99.[16]O Abdurahman is the current Editor of Madhyamam

and VK Hamza Abbas is the Chief Editor of Gulf Madhyamam.[17] Media critique Dr. K

Yasin Ashraf is the associate editor of Madhyamam.

Deshabhimani

Desabhimani

Type Daily newspaper

Owner Communist Party of India

(Marxist) Kerala State

Committee

Editor-in-chief V. V. Dakshinamoorthi

Founded 1942

Political

alignment

Communist

Language Malayalam

Headquarters Kochi, Keralam

Desabhimani is a Malayalam newspaper and the organ of the Kerala State Committee

of theCommunist Party of India (Marxist). Started as a weekly in Kozhikode on

September 6, 1942 and converted to a daily in 1946. Deshabhimani now has six

different editions:

Kozhikode,Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram, Kannur, Kottayam and Trichur. According to the

National Readership Survey of 1995, Desabhimani was the third largest newspaper in

Kerala.[1] At present, V. V. Dakshinamoorthi, secretariat member of the CPI(M) is the

Chief Editor of the paper and E.P. Jayarajan, CPI-M central committee member, the

General Manager.

History

Deshabhimani has a predecessor, Prabhatham (which means 'Dawn'). It was started in

1935 and was the manifesto of the socialist group in the Indian National Congress. It

was in 1942, through the efforts of eminent leaders like A K Gopalan and E M S

Namboodiripad(who in fact donated all of his ancestral property for raising funds for the

paper) Deshabhimani started and became the voice of the Communist Party of India

(later became Communist Party of India (Marxist)). Various personalities like E.M.S.

Namboodiripad, V T Induchudan, and V. S. Achuthanandan, have served as the chief

editors of Deshabhimani. So many notable Journalists of South India work with

Deshabhimani. P.Govindapillai, Ezhacheri Ramachandran, Prabha Varma, K.R.Ajayan,

P.M. Manoj, A.V. Anilkumar, B.Aburaj,Sunil P. Elayidom, etc are some among them.

Kerala Kaumudi

Type Daily newspaper

Format Broadsheet

Publisher M. S. Ravi

Editor M. S. Madhusoodanan

Editor-in-chief M. S. Mani

Managing

editors

Deepu Ravi

Founded 1911

Language Malayalam

Headquarters Kaumudi Buildings,

Thiruvananthapuram - 695

024,

India

Kerala Kaumudi (Malayalam: നോ�രള��മാ�ദി�) is a popular Malayalam newspaper,

founded in 1911 by C. V. Kunhiraman[1] with K. Sukumaran BA as the founder editor.

Published

fromThiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Alappuzha, Kochi, Kozhikode, Kannur in Kerala and 

Bangalore, Kerala Kaumudi is the third most circulated Malayalam daily.[citation needed] The

paper has online editions in Malayalam and English that are updated twice daily. There

are overseas online editions published from London, New York and Singapore. Mr. M.

S. Mani is the Editor in Chief of the newspaper.

Deepika (newspaper)

Type Daily newspaper

Format Broadsheet

Owner Rashtra Deepika Ltd.

Editor Fr. Alexander Paikada C.M.I

Founded April 15, 1887

Headquarters Kottayam

Official website Deepika

Deepika, a Malayalam language newspaper, is one of the oldest newspapers published in India. Started in 1887, it is the oldest Malayalam newspaper now in circulation. Deepika publishes editions from Kottayam, Kochi, Kannur, Thrissur, Thiruvananthapuram and Kozhikode.[1] It was controlled by the Syro Malabar Church of Kerala from its inception till 1989. In August 1989, the Deepika and its sister publications came under the ownership of Rashtra Deepika Ltd., a public limited company. The readership of the newspaper is drawn mainly from the Syro Malabar Catholic laity. Mr. P P Sunny is the Managing Director and Fr. Alexander Paikada C.M.I is theChief Editor of the newspaper.

History

Deepika has an illustrious history of over a century. It was first published by a Syrian

Christianpriest, Nidhirikkal Manikkathanar, or Father Emmanuel Nidhiri, or Nidhiry Mani

Kathanar, under the masthead Nazrani Deepika. (Nazrani in Malayalam means a

follower of Jesus, the Nazraene). The first issue came out on 1887 April 15, which

coincided with Vishu (the spring equinox festival according to Kerala tradition). The

word "Deepika" in Malayalam means "lamp." Printing was on a crude handmade

wooden press.

As its first name denotes, Deepika began as a paper of Syro Malabar Nasranis or

Catholics of Kerala's Syran tradition. From its very inception it was run by Carmelites of

Mary Immaculate(CMI), a religious order within the Roman Catholic Church. In 1989 its

control was transferred to a Public Limited Company, "Rashtra Deepika Ltd".

Chandrika daily

Chandrika

Type Daily newspaper

Format Broadsheet

Owner Kerala Muslim Printing and

Publishing Co Ltd

Founded 1934, Thalassery

Headquarters Kozhikode

Chandrika is a Malayalam newspaper run by the Indian Union Muslim League, Kerala.

It is published from Kozhikode and was the first attempt to have a newspaper

from Malabar Muslimsto support the political party. It was established in the 1930s at

Thalassery and it has celebrated its Platinum Jubilee in January 2011. Chandrika

started publishing from Kozhikode during 1938-1939.

Chandrika is published from Kozhikode. Former Kerala Chief Minister Mr. C.H.

Mohammed Koya had put in a lot of effort to modernize the newspaper to the one which

we see today. Chandrika is now publishing from

Kozhikode,Kochi,Kannur,Malappuram,Trivandrum & Middle east(Dubai, Bahrain, &

Quatar). Editions will be launched from Riyadh and Jeddah soon.

Chandrika is a group of publications. Chandrika weekly, Mahila chandrika, sports

chandrika and arogya chandrika are published by the group.

Janmabhumi

Janmabhumi Newspaper

Format Broadsheet

Owner Matruka Pracharanalayam

Ltd.

Editor Smt. Leela Menon

Editor-in-chief Shri. Hari. S. Kartha

Managing editors Shri. P. Balakrishnan

Founded 1977

Political

alignment

Bharatiya Janata Party

Language Malayalam

Headquarters Cochin

Janmabhumi Newspaper is an Indian daily newspaper founded in 1977, published in a

broadsheet format and owned by Matruka Pracharanalayam Ltd.

The paper's Managing Director is Kummanam Rajashekharan.

The paper's editor in chief is Hari S. Kartha. [1]

The paper's headquarters are in Cochin.

Janmabhumi is one of the most popular Malayalam newspaper now in circulation[citation

needed]. Janmabhumi publishes editions

from Kochi, Kottayam, Kannur, Thrissur, Thiruvananthapuramand Kozhikode.

Editorial Team is extended with Shri. Hari S. Kartha, who is a senior journalist with

experience in The Economic Times, The Financial Express, Star-News, etc. as Chief

Editor, Smt. Leela Menon as Editor and Shri. P. Balakrishnan as Managing Editor. The

change in Layout and contents brought about by the Team has been widely appreciated

by Readers. Today this publication is the leading voice echoing national aspirations and

anxieties without any fear or favour in this hundred percent literate state where media

plays a crucial role in shaping the perception of the people. It is associated with

the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and the nationalist party Bharatiya Janata Party,

India.

It contains full page issues about Samskriti (Cultural), Sports, Karshikam (Agriculture),

Samakalikam (Recent Events Valuations), Garhikam (House) etc.

Siraj Daily

Siraj

Format Daily

Owner Thoufeeque Publications

Editor VPM Faisy Villyapalli

Founded 1984

Language Malayalam

Headquarters Calicut

Siraj is a daily newspaper in Malayalam language. It was established in 1984. The

newspaper belongs to Thoufeeque Publications. It is published

from Calicut, Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi,Kannur and Dubai. The head office of the

newspaper is at Calicut. The editor is VPM Faisy Villyapalli.

Thejas daily

Thejas is a Malayalam news daily run by Intermedia Publishing Ltd., a Public Limited

Company based in Calicut. Thejas is the Malayalam mouthpiece of Popular front of

india. It started functioning from Republic Day of India in Feb 2006. Within a short span

of three months it started another edition from Trivandrum followed by the third edition

from Cochin within another three months.

Editions

It started publishing its news paper from Kozhikode. But now it is expanded to have

more edition in 2006 with Trivandrum and Ernakulameditions.Also Kannur edition

started in 2008 as part of the expansion.On December 2009, it started its Kottayam

edition.It has an online edition and e-paper also 

Varthamanam daily

Varthamanam is a Malayalam daily published from Calicut, Cochin, and Doha by Media

View Limited. Well known Malayalam critic and orator Sukumar Azhikode was the

founding chief editor of the newspaper. Jafar Atholi is the editor in charge of

Varthamanam now. Varthamanam as a newspaper uplifting humanity and morality of

Muslim reformation movement of Kerala. It is quite natural that every reformist activities

will have to face challenges. This venture has also had its distractors all through its

journey from within and outside. However the daily has been keeping its high values in

reporting and editorial. Even the media faced financial crisis in some months its

management and editorial made no compromises in keeping its values.

History

It is an association of enlightened group who took up novel idea to start a new

journalistic tradition without usual masalas. The daily was one of the products of a

limited company registered under the Indian companies Act 1956 by name Media view

Ltd. Though it is in its infancy its expose on godmen in Kerala has created a wave in the

country. It is treading forward into progress. Now a new edition from Kannur is going to

start . At this juncture the untimely demise of its founder and associate editor

Aboobacker Karakkunu is a sad 'varthamanam' for the well wishers of the paper. He

was an inspiration for all of us.