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In 1932, the ''Indian Express'' was started by an [[Ayurvedic]] doctor, [[P. Varadarajulu Naidu]], at [[Chennai]], being published by his "Tamil Nadu" press.{{Citation needed|date=September 2021}} Soon under financial difficulties, he sold the newspaper to [[Swaminathan Sadanand]], the founder of ''[[The Free Press Journal]]'', a national [[news agency]].{{Citation needed|date=September 2021}} In 1933, the ''Indian Express'' opened its second office in [[Madurai]], launching the [[Tamil language|Tamil]] edition, ''[[Dinamani]]''. Sadanand introduced several innovations and reduced the price of the newspaper. Faced with financial difficulties, he sold a part of his stake to Ramanath Goenka as [[convertible debenture]]s. In 1935, when ''The Free Press Journal'' finally collapsed, and after a protracted court battle with Goenka, Sadanand lost ownership of ''Indian Express''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kaminsky|first=Arnold|title=India Today- an encyclopedia of life in the republic|date=30 September 2011|page=340|isbn=9780313374623|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wWDnTWrz4O8C&pg=PA340}}</ref> In 1939, Goenka bought ''[[Andhra Prabha]]'', another prominent [[Telugu language|Telugu]] daily newspaper. The name [[Three Musketeers]] was often used for the three dailies namely, Indian Express, Dinamani and Andhra Prabha.
In 1932, the ''Indian Express'' was started by an [[Ayurvedic]] doctor, [[P. Varadarajulu Naidu]], at [[Chennai]], being published by his "Tamil Nadu" press.{{Citation needed|date=September 2021}} Soon under financial difficulties, he sold the newspaper to [[Swaminathan Sadanand]], the founder of ''[[The Free Press Journal]]'', a national [[news agency]].{{Citation needed|date=September 2021}} In 1933, the ''Indian Express'' opened its second office in [[Madurai]], launching the [[Tamil language|Tamil]] edition, ''[[Dinamani]]''. Sadanand introduced several innovations and reduced the price of the newspaper. Faced with financial difficulties, he sold a part of his stake to Ramanath Goenka as [[convertible debenture]]s. In 1935, when ''The Free Press Journal'' finally collapsed, and after a protracted court battle with Goenka, Sadanand lost ownership of ''Indian Express''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kaminsky|first=Arnold|title=India Today- an encyclopedia of life in the republic|date=30 September 2011|page=340|isbn=9780313374623|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wWDnTWrz4O8C&pg=PA340}}</ref> In 1939, Goenka bought ''[[Andhra Prabha]]'', another prominent [[Telugu language|Telugu]] daily newspaper. The name [[Three Musketeers]] was often used for the three dailies namely, Indian Express, Dinamani and Andhra Prabha.


In 1940, the whole premises was gutted by fire. ''[[The Hindu]]'', a rival newspaper, helped considerably in re-launching the paper, by getting it printed temporarily at one of its Swadesimithran's press and later offering its recently vacated premises at 2, Mount Road, on rent to Goenka, which later became the landmark Express Estates.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://madrasminutes.com/2017/11/06/1940-the-year-of-fires/|title=1940 – The year of Fires|last=madrasminutes|date=2017-11-06|website=Madras Minutes|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809053346/https://madrasminutes.com/2017/11/06/1940-the-year-of-fires/|archive-date=2020-08-09|access-date=2020-04-10}}{{unreliable source|date=September 2020}}</ref> This relocation also helped the Express obtain better high speed printing machines. The district judge who did inquiry into the fire concluded that a short circuit or a cigarette butt could have ignited the fire and said that the growing city had inadequate fire control support.<ref name=":0" /> In 1952, the paper had a circulation of 44,469.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Mani |first1=A. D. |title=The Indian Press Today |journal=Far Eastern Survey |date=2 July 1952 |volume=21 |issue=11 |pages=109–113 |doi=10.2307/3023864 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3023864 |publisher=[[Institute of Pacific Relations]] |jstor=3023864 |issn=0362-8949}}</ref>
In 1940, the whole premises was gutted by fire. ''[[The Hindu]]'', a rival newspaper, helped considerably in re-launching the paper, by getting it printed temporarily at one of its Swadesimithran's press and later offering its recently vacated premises at 2, Mount Road, on rent to Goenka, which later became the landmark Express Estates.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://madrasminutes.com/2017/11/06/1940-the-year-of-fires/|title=1940 – The year of Fires|last=madrasminutes|date=2017-11-06|website=Madras Minutes|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809053346/https://madrasminutes.com/2017/11/06/1940-the-year-of-fires/|archive-date=2020-08-09|access-date=2020-04-10}}{{unreliable source?|date=September 2020}}</ref> This relocation also helped the Express obtain better high speed printing machines. The district judge who did inquiry into the fire concluded that a short circuit or a cigarette butt could have ignited the fire and said that the growing city had inadequate fire control support.<ref name=":0" /> In 1952, the paper had a circulation of 44,469.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Mani |first1=A. D. |title=The Indian Press Today |journal=Far Eastern Survey |date=2 July 1952 |volume=21 |issue=11 |pages=109–113 |doi=10.2307/3023864 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3023864 |publisher=[[Institute of Pacific Relations]] |jstor=3023864 |issn=0362-8949}}</ref>


After Ramnath Goenka's death in 1991, two of the grandsons, Manoj Kumar Sonthalia and Vivek Goenka split the group into two. Indian Express Mumbai with all the North Indian editions went to Vivek Goenka, and all the Southern editions which were grouped as Express Publications Madurai Limited with [[Chennai]] as headquarters went to MK Sonthalia.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://indiankanoon.org/doc/61205/|title=Manoj Kumar Sonthalia vs Vivek Goenka And Ors. on 9 March, 1995|website=indiankanoon.org|access-date=2020-04-10}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lawyerservices.in/Manoj-Kumar-Sonthalia-Versus-Vivek-Goenka-and-Others-1995-03-09|title=Manoj Kumar Sonthalia v Vivek Goenka and Others on 09 March 1995 - Judgement - LawyerServices|website=www.lawyerservices.in|access-date=2020-04-10}}</ref> ''Indian Express'' began publishing daily on the [[internet]] on 8 July 1996. Five months later, the website ''expressindia.com'' attracted "700,000 hits every day, excepting weekends when it fell to 60% of its normal levels".<ref>{{cite web |title=Indian Express - Awards |url=http://www.expressindia.com/about/AWARDS.HTM |website=The Indian Express |access-date=18 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19970415041105/http://www.expressindia.com/about/AWARDS.HTM |archive-date=15 April 1997}}</ref>
After Ramnath Goenka's death in 1991, two of the grandsons, Manoj Kumar Sonthalia and Vivek Goenka split the group into two. Indian Express Mumbai with all the North Indian editions went to Vivek Goenka, and all the Southern editions which were grouped as Express Publications Madurai Limited with [[Chennai]] as headquarters went to MK Sonthalia.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://indiankanoon.org/doc/61205/|title=Manoj Kumar Sonthalia vs Vivek Goenka And Ors. on 9 March, 1995|website=indiankanoon.org|access-date=2020-04-10}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lawyerservices.in/Manoj-Kumar-Sonthalia-Versus-Vivek-Goenka-and-Others-1995-03-09|title=Manoj Kumar Sonthalia v Vivek Goenka and Others on 09 March 1995 - Judgement - LawyerServices|website=www.lawyerservices.in|access-date=2020-04-10}}</ref> ''Indian Express'' began publishing daily on the [[internet]] on 8 July 1996. Five months later, the website ''expressindia.com'' attracted "700,000 hits every day, excepting weekends when it fell to 60% of its normal levels".<ref>{{cite web |title=Indian Express - Awards |url=http://www.expressindia.com/about/AWARDS.HTM |website=The Indian Express |access-date=18 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19970415041105/http://www.expressindia.com/about/AWARDS.HTM |archive-date=15 April 1997}}</ref>
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* [[Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards]]
* [[Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards]]
* [[Star Screen Awards|Screen Awards]]
* [[Star Screen Awards|Screen Awards]]


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Revision as of 21:50, 23 April 2023

For the bifurcated South Indian edition, see The New Indian Express.

The Indian Express
Journalism of Courage
The publication's 4 August 2009 front page
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Indian Express Group
PublisherIndian Express Group
Editor-in-chiefRaj Kamal Jha[1]
Founded1932; 92 years ago (1932)
LanguageEnglish
HeadquartersB1/B, Express Building, Sector 10, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
Sister newspapers
OCLC number70274541
Websiteindianexpress.com

The Indian Express is an English-language Indian daily newspaper founded in 1932. It is published in Mumbai by the Indian Express Group. In 1999, eight years after the group's founder Ramnath Goenka's death in 1991,[2] the group was split between the family members. The southern editions took the name The New Indian Express, while the northern editions, based in Mumbai, retained the original Indian Express name with "The" prefixed to the title.[3]

History

In 1932, the Indian Express was started by an Ayurvedic doctor, P. Varadarajulu Naidu, at Chennai, being published by his "Tamil Nadu" press.[citation needed] Soon under financial difficulties, he sold the newspaper to Swaminathan Sadanand, the founder of The Free Press Journal, a national news agency.[citation needed] In 1933, the Indian Express opened its second office in Madurai, launching the Tamil edition, Dinamani. Sadanand introduced several innovations and reduced the price of the newspaper. Faced with financial difficulties, he sold a part of his stake to Ramanath Goenka as convertible debentures. In 1935, when The Free Press Journal finally collapsed, and after a protracted court battle with Goenka, Sadanand lost ownership of Indian Express.[4] In 1939, Goenka bought Andhra Prabha, another prominent Telugu daily newspaper. The name Three Musketeers was often used for the three dailies namely, Indian Express, Dinamani and Andhra Prabha.

In 1940, the whole premises was gutted by fire. The Hindu, a rival newspaper, helped considerably in re-launching the paper, by getting it printed temporarily at one of its Swadesimithran's press and later offering its recently vacated premises at 2, Mount Road, on rent to Goenka, which later became the landmark Express Estates.[5] This relocation also helped the Express obtain better high speed printing machines. The district judge who did inquiry into the fire concluded that a short circuit or a cigarette butt could have ignited the fire and said that the growing city had inadequate fire control support.[5] In 1952, the paper had a circulation of 44,469.[6]

After Ramnath Goenka's death in 1991, two of the grandsons, Manoj Kumar Sonthalia and Vivek Goenka split the group into two. Indian Express Mumbai with all the North Indian editions went to Vivek Goenka, and all the Southern editions which were grouped as Express Publications Madurai Limited with Chennai as headquarters went to MK Sonthalia.[7][8] Indian Express began publishing daily on the internet on 8 July 1996. Five months later, the website expressindia.com attracted "700,000 hits every day, excepting weekends when it fell to 60% of its normal levels".[9]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Express Group Editorial". The Indian Express. Retrieved 21 September 2020.
  2. ^ "Ramnath Goenka". The Indian Express. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
  3. ^ ARUN KATIYAR (31 March 1995). "Rs 220 crore Indian Express group of late media baron Ramnath Goenka splits". India Today. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
  4. ^ Kaminsky, Arnold (30 September 2011). India Today- an encyclopedia of life in the republic. p. 340. ISBN 9780313374623.
  5. ^ a b madrasminutes (6 November 2017). "1940 – The year of Fires". Madras Minutes. Archived from the original on 9 August 2020. Retrieved 10 April 2020.[unreliable source?]
  6. ^ Mani, A. D. (2 July 1952). "The Indian Press Today". Far Eastern Survey. 21 (11). Institute of Pacific Relations: 109–113. doi:10.2307/3023864. ISSN 0362-8949. JSTOR 3023864.
  7. ^ "Manoj Kumar Sonthalia vs Vivek Goenka And Ors. on 9 March, 1995". indiankanoon.org. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  8. ^ "Manoj Kumar Sonthalia v Vivek Goenka and Others on 09 March 1995 - Judgement - LawyerServices". www.lawyerservices.in. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  9. ^ "Indian Express - Awards". The Indian Express. Archived from the original on 15 April 1997. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
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