The Indian Express
{{Short description|Daily broadsheet newspaper in India}}
{{for|the bifurcated South Indian edition|The New Indian Express}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2020}}
{{Infobox newspaper
| name = The Indian Express
| motto = Journalism of Courage
| logo = File:The Indian Express logo.svg
| image = File:Indian-Expree.jpg
| caption = The publication's 4 August 2009 front page
| type = Daily newspaper
| format = Broadsheet
| foundation = {{start date and age|1932}}
| owners = Indian Express Group
| publisher = Indian Express Group
| chiefeditor = Raj Kamal Jha{{cite web |title=Express Group Editorial |url=https://expressgroup.indianexpress.com/senior-editors.html |publisher=The Indian Express |access-date=21 September 2020 |archive-date=17 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140317050250/https://expressgroup.indianexpress.com/senior-editors.html |url-status=live }}
| political =
| language = English
| headquarters = B1/B, Express Building, Sector 10, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
| circulation =
| sister newspapers = {{ubl|The Financial Express|Loksatta|Jansatta}}
| website = {{URL|https://indianexpress.com/}}
| ISSN =
| oclc = 70274541
}}
The Indian Express is an English-language Indian daily newspaper founded in 1932 by P. Varadarajulu Naidu. It is headquartered in Noida, owned by the Indian Express Group. It was later taken over by Ramnath Goenka. In 1999, eight years after Goenka's death in 1991,{{Cite web|title=Ramnath Goenka|url=https://indianexpress.com/|access-date=2020-07-06|website=The Indian Express|language=en|archive-date=22 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190622094128/https://indianexpress.com/|url-status=live}} 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.{{Cite magazine |author=Katiyar |first=Arun |date=March 31, 1995 |title=Rs 220 crore Indian Express group of late media baron Ramnath Goenka splits |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/society-the-arts/media/story/19950331-rs-220-crore-indian-express-group-of-late-media-baron-ramnath-goenka-splits-807073-1995-03-31 |access-date=2020-12-18 |magazine=India Today |language=en}}
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|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 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 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.{{cite book|last=Kaminsky|first=Arnold|title=India Today- an encyclopedia of life in the republic|date=30 September 2011|page=340|publisher=Abc-Clio |isbn=9780313374623|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wWDnTWrz4O8C&pg=PA340|access-date=3 February 2016|archive-date=29 June 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230629115021/https://books.google.com/books?id=wWDnTWrz4O8C&pg=PA340|url-status=live}} 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 lenting their old building and allowing getting it printed temporarily at one of its Swadesimithran's press and later offered its recently vacated premises at 2 Mount Road, on rent to Goenka, which later became the landmark Express Estates.{{Cite web |last= |date=2017-11-06 |title=1940 – The year of Fires |url=https://madrasminutes.com/2017/11/06/1940-the-year-of-fires/ |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 |website=Madras Minutes}}{{unreliable source?|date=September 2020}} This relocation also helped the Express obtain better high speed printing machines. The district judge who led the inquiry into the fire concluded that a short circuit or cigarette butt could have ignited the fire and said that the growing city had inadequate fire control support. In 1952, the paper had a circulation of 44,469.{{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 |access-date=21 September 2020 |archive-date=24 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211224045234/https://www.jstor.org/stable/3023864 |url-status=live |url-access=subscription }}
After Goenka's death in 1991, two of his grandsons, Manoj Kumar Sonthalia and Viveck Goenka{{Cite web |title=Express Group |url=https://expressgroup.indianexpress.com/management.html |access-date=2024-06-07 |website=expressgroup.indianexpress.com}} split the group into two. Indian Express Mumbai with all the North Indian editions went to Viveck Goenka, and all the Southern editions, which were grouped as Express Publications Madurai Limited and headquartered in Chennai, went to Sonthalia.{{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|archive-date=24 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211224044426/https://indiankanoon.org/doc/61205/|url-status=live}}{{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|archive-date=19 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211019003203/https://www.lawyerservices.in/Manoj-Kumar-Sonthalia-Versus-Vivek-Goenka-and-Others-1995-03-09|url-status=live}} 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".{{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}}
See also
References
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External links
- [https://indianexpress.org.in The Indian Express website]
- {{Twitter|id=IndianExpress}}
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