| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Owner | Communist Party of India (Marxist) Tamilnadu State Committee |
| Editor-in-chief | V Parameswaran |
| Founded | 1963 |
| Political alignment | Communist |
| Language | Tamil |
| Headquarters | Chennai, Tamilnadu |
| Official website | theekkathir.in |
Theekkathir is a Tamil newspaper and the organ of the Tamilnadu State Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). Theekkathir published from Madurai, Chennai and Coimbatore.
In 1963, Theekkathir was started as a weekly organ from Chennai with the fund collected by Coimbatore mill workers. Its first editor was Comrade Arputhasamy, fondly called as Appu.
When CPI(M) was formed in 1964, Theekkathir became the official organ of the Party’s Tamilnadu state committee and its regular edition was launched in 1969 at Madurai, the stronghold of the Party. Theekkathir became a daily newspaper in 1971.
The paper’s second edition started from Chennai in 1993. Its third edition started from Coimbatore in 2007
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