Deshabhimani

Desabhimani is a Malayalam newspaper and the organ of the Kerala State Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). Started as a weekly in Kozhikode on September 6, 1942 and converted to a daily in 1946. Deshabhimani now has six different printing centres: Kozhikode, Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram, Kannur, Kottayam and Trichur. According to the National Readership Survey of 1995, Desabhimani was the third largest newspaper in Kerala.^[1] At present, V. V. Dakshinamoorthi, secretariat member of the CPI(M) is the Chief Editor of the paper and E.P. Jayarajan, CPI-M central committee member, the General Manager.

History

Deshabhimani has a predecessor, Prabhatham (which means 'Dawn'). It was started in 1935 and was the manifesto of the socialist group in the Indian National Congress. It was in 1942, through the efforts of eminent leaders like A K Gopalan and E M S Namboodiripad(who in fact donated all of his ancestral property for raising funds for the paper) Deshabhimani started and became the voice of the Communist Party of India (later became Communist Party of India (Marxist)). Various personalities like E.M.S. Namboodiripad, V T Induchudan, K P R Gopalan and V. S. Achuthanandan, have served as the chief editors of Deshabhimani. So many notable Journalists of South India work with Deshabhimani. P Govindapillai, Ezhacheri Ramachandran, Prabha Varma, K.R.Ajayan, P.M. Manoj, A.V. Anilkumar, B.Aburaj,Sunil P. Elayidom, etc are some among them.

Supplements

• Deshabhimani Varanthappathippu
• Aksharamuttam
• Sthree
• Kilivaathil

Publications

• Deshabhimani Varika (Weekly)

• Thathamma (Children's Publication)

External links

• Desabhimani online edition

References