Manorama Yearbook

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The Manorama Yearbook is a "general knowledge update" published annually from South India by the Kottayam-based Malayala Manorama newspaper group.

It is currently in its 41st year of publication and claims to be the "largest selling general knowledge update" in India. In 2006, the issue of this publication contained over a thousand pages, and covered people, places, ideas and events, of both global and Indian relevance.

Its chief editor currently is K.M. Santosh, and the others on the team are Mammen Mathew (editor), Philip Mathew (managing editor), Jacob Mathew (executive editor), K C Narayanan (editor-in-charge), and V George Mathew (coordinator, editorial research), among others.

[edit] 2008 issue

Chief editor K M Mathew said the 2008-issued 43rd edition "has been designed as a special general knowledge edition that offers students, scholars and quizzers a great deal of new information".

It included a feature on 100 "must read" books and another on a hundred prominent literary characters. It also included a survey of Indian and Asian cinema. This publication boasts of including a dictionary of 600 terms, a who's who of 1000 persons and a list of 500 places that are "particularly useful and interesting".

It is also known to include quite some details about diverse regions of India, where it is sold at a fairly affordable price of Rs 130 at present, made possible by carrying a large number of advertisements in the book published by one of India's largest newspaper group.