Anandabazar Patrika
{{short description| Bengali-language daily newspaper}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{Use Indian English|date=June 2016}}
{{Infobox newspaper
| name = Anandabazar Patrika
| logo = আনন্দবাজার_পত্রিকার_লোগো.svg
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| image = File:Anandabazar Patrika 9 December 2022 Front Page.jpg
| caption = Front page of 9 December 2022
| type = Daily newspaper
| format = Broadsheet
| owners = Ananda
{{small|(ABP Group)}}
| founder =
| staff =
| foundation = {{Start date and age|1922|03|13|df=yes}}
| political =
| language = Bengali
| ceased publication =
| headquarters = Kolkata, West Bengal, India
| publishing_country = India
| circulation = 802,289
| circulation_date = June 2022
| circulation_ref = {{cite web |title=Highest Circulated Daily Newspapers (language wise) |url=http://www.auditbureau.org/files/JJ%202022%20Highest%20Circulated%20(across%20languages).pdf |access-date=5 January 2023 |publisher=Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) |archive-date=25 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230125041300/http://www.auditbureau.org/files/JJ%202022%20Highest%20Circulated%20(across%20languages).pdf |url-status=live}}
| sister newspapers = The Telegraph
| oclc = 187024438
| website = {{URL|http://www.anandabazar.com/}}
}}
Anandabazar Patrika is an Indian Bengali-language daily newspaper owned by the ABP Group. Its main competitors are Bartaman, Ei Samay, Sangbad Pratidin, "Aajkal", "Jago Bangla", "ganashakti" and "dainik Statesman".
History
A Bengali newspaper was published in 1876 in a small village of Magura at Jessore District in British India (now Bangladesh) by Sisir Kumar Ghosh, the father of Tushar Kanti Ghosh. He named it Ananda Bazar after Tusharkanti's grandmother's sister Anandomayee. However, soon the newspaper died. In 1886, Ghosh published another newspaper, named after his grandmother Amritamoyee: Amrita Bazar Patrika.{{Cite web |url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2003/20030102/nation.htm#11 |title=The Tribune, Chandigarh, India – Nation |website=The Tribune |access-date=10 September 2016 |archive-date=27 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201027150346/https://www.tribuneindia.com/2003/20030102/nation.htm#11 |url-status=live}}
Later in 1922, the Anandabazar Patrika was relaunched by proprietor Suresh Chandra Majumdar and editor Prafulla Kumar Sarkar.{{Cite book |last1=Chakrabarti |first1=Kunal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QVOFAAAAQBAJ&dq=ashok+kumar+sarkar+anandabazar&pg=PA44 |title=Historical Dictionary of the Bengalis |last2=Chakrabarti |first2=Shubhra |date=22 August 2013 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-8024-5 |language=en}} It was first printed on 13 March 1922 under their ownership and was against British rule.{{cite web |url=http://www.mediamimansa.com/11th%20issue/11eng_92-96.pdf |title=Ananda Bazar Patrika Uniqueness: red ink printing |work=Media Mimansa |year=2009 |access-date=13 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120611210422/http://www.mediamimansa.com/11th%20issue/11eng_92-96.pdf |archive-date=11 June 2012 |url-status=dead}}{{Cite web |title=আমাদের সম্পর্কে |url=https://www.anandabazar.com/aboutus |access-date=12 June 2024}} In 1922 it first published as a four-page evening daily. After the death of Prafulla Kumar sarkar, his son Ashok Kumar Sarkar upgraded the magazine.{{Cite web |title=A Centenary Tribute – Asoke Kumar Sarkar (1912–1983) |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/a-centenary-tribute-asoke-kumar-sarkar-1912-1983/cid/375119 |access-date=11 September 2023 |website=The Telegraph (India) |language=en}} The first colour printing was the features section. The internet edition of the newspaper was launched in 2001, which publishes news among the community. Also provides advertisement in the printed newspaper.{{cite web |title=Anandabazar Patrika {{!}} Purono |url=http://archives.anandabazar.com/oldarchives.html?date=01&month=01&year=101 |website=archives.anandabazar.com |publisher=Anandabazar Patrika |access-date=14 March 2014 |archive-date=14 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140314135557/http://archives.anandabazar.com/oldarchives.html?date=01&month=01&year=101 |url-status=live}} In 2010, Time Inc. entered into a license agreement with ABP Group to publish Fortune India magazine. This magazine publishes the Fortune India 500 list every year.{{Cite web |url=http://www.medianewsline.com/news/117/ARTICLE/6713/2010-09-27.html/Fortune |title=India magazine |access-date=17 January 2012 |archive-date=7 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211207053113/http://www.medianewsline.com/news/117/ARTICLE/6713/2010-09-27.html/Fortune |url-status=live}}
See also
References
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External links
- {{Official website|https://www.anandabazar.com/}} {{in lang|bn}}
- [https://epaper.anandabazar.com/ Daily epaper.anandabazar]
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Category:Daily newspapers published in India
Category:Newspapers published in Kolkata
Category:Bengali-language newspapers published in India
Category:Newspapers established in 1922