Maharashtra Times

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Maharashtra Times is a Marathi daily newspaper which enjoys the second largest readership* in Mumbai, India.

Maharashtra Times is owned by Bennett, Coleman & Co. or The Times Group, which is the largest media house in India. Its first editor was D B Karnik. In late 1960s, he was replaced by Govind Talwalkar. During Talwalkar's tenure, which stretched into 1990s, the newspaper acquired the status of a legend. Some of the best leading articles written by Talwalkar have been anthologised. Poet Kusumagraj said that the paper showed Maharashtra how to put together the main page featuring editorial and comment. But the paper's prestige is somewhat compromised by its toeing the establishment line, like most of other Times group newspapers. The internet edition of this paper also suffers from serious grammatical errors.

The paper, in its heyday, could boast among its contributors the greatest Marathi writers of the day, like Durga Bhagwat, Kusumagraj and P L Deshpande.

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* The Indian Readership Survey, IRS, 2005 R1.

Other than the TOI, Maharashtra Times is the only newspaper in Mumbai which has more than one million readers in the city (The IRS 2005 R2 released on Oct 11th, 2005)