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COVERAGE OF KASTHURIRANGAN REPORT BY MAJOR
KERALA NEWSPAPERS: A STUDY BASED ON TWO NATIONAL
AND REGIONAL NEWSPAPERS
Anna Mathew
Registered Number: 1324060
A dissertation
submitted in partial fulfilment of the
requirements for the degree of
Master of Science in Communication
Christ University
Bengaluru
2015
Programme Authorized to Offer Degree
Department of Media Studies
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Christ University
Department of Media Studies
This is to certify that I have examined this copy of a master‟s thesis by
Anna Mathew
Registered Number: 1324060
and have found that it is complete and satisfactory in all respects,
and that any and all revisions required by the final
examining committee have been made.
Committee Members:
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Master's Signa iv
I, Anna Mathew, confirm that this dissertation and the work presented in it are original.
1. Where I have consulted the published work of others this is always clearly
attributed.
2. Where I have quoted from the work of others the source is always given. With the
exception of such quotations this dissertation is entirely my own work.
3. I have acknowledged all main sources of help.
4. If my research follows on from previous work or is part of a larger collaborative
research project I have made clear exactly what was done by others and what I
have contributed myself.
5. I am aware and accept the penalties associated with plagiarism.
Date: Signature
vTitle Pag vi
Abstract
Coverage of Kasthurirangan Report by major Kerala Newspapers – A Study Based on
Two Regional and National Newspapers
Anna Mathew
Master of Science in Communication, Christ University, Bengaluru
This paper tries to evaluate the phenomenon of news-views coverageon Kasthurirangan
Report in Print Media considering its peak discussed period that is, from November 2013
to January 2014. The time constraint made the researcher to restrict only to print media
coverage in Kerala rather considering the other forms of media platform‟s coverage. The
researcher would like to understand and analyse whether the newspapers gave adequate
information about the report for the readers. Did the newspapers provide enough
information (quantity and quality)? Are they giving enough space to the concerned
people? What actually the report says? And their views and efforts in creating a
discourse.
Keywords: Kasthurirangan Report, Western Ghats, Newspapers, Madhav Gadgil Report
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
My sincere gratitude to my Guide, Shantharaju for his constant guidance encouragement
and support. I also thank course coordinator Fr. Biju K. Chacko, HOD Naresh Rao, and
other faculties Suparna Naresh, Aasita Bali, Amutha Manavalan, Rajesh A., and Kannan
for their valuable feedback and restless assistance in bringing out this research. I also
would like to thank Dr. Andrew Kennedy, my family and friends for the encouragement
and devotion, without whom this thesis would never have been completed.
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DEDICATION
To my loving family and friends
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION........................................................................................ 1
Chapter 2: REVIEW OF LITERATURE .................................................................... 18
Chapter 3: METHODOLOGY ..................................................................................... 25
Chapter 4: FINDINGS & ANALYSIS ........................................................................ 30
4.1 Space given by Newspapers for Western Ghats Reports…………………....31
4.1.1 November 2013…………………………………………………….…..31
4.1.1.1 Malayala Manorama……………………………………………….…31
4.1.1.2 Mathrubhumi………………………………………………………....33
4.1.1.3 Times of India…………………………………………………….…..35
4.1.1.4 The Hindu………………………………………………………….…37
4.1.1.5 Comparative Analysis of November 2013…………………………...39
4.1.2 December 2013………………………………………………………...40
4.1.2.1 Malayala Manorama…………………………………………………..40
4.1.2.2 Mathrubhumi………………………………………………………….42
4.1.2.3 Times Of India………………………………………………………...44
4.1.2.4 The Hindu……………………………………………………………..46
4.1.2.5 Comparative Analysis and Findings of December 2013……………...48
4.1.3 January2014……………………………………………………………..49
4.1.3.1 Malayala Manorama…………………………………………………..49
4.1.3.2 Mathrubhumi………………………………………………………….51
4.1.3.3 Times Of India………………………………………………………...53
4.1.3.4 The Hindu……………………………………………………………..54
4.1.3.5 Comparative Analysis and Findings of January………………………56
4.2 Comparative Analysis And Findings of four Newspapers……………….…..58
4.3 Number of Articles appeared in the Newspapers…………………………….59
4.4 Space given to Madhav Gadgil Report…………………………………….…60
xiii4.5 Number of Articles/Editorials Supporting & Opposing the Report………….61
4.5.1 Malayala Manorama………………………………………………………..61
4.5.2 Mathrubhumi…………………………………………………………..…...62
4.5.3 Times Of India………………………………………………………….….62
4.5.4 The Hindu……………………………………………………………..…...62
4.6 Government Response……………………………………………………….62
Chapter 5: CONCLUSION ..................................................................................... .…64
Bibliography .............................................................................................................. ..66
xivLIST OF FIGURES
Table 1: Total Area given by Malayala Manorama on November………………….……32
Figure 1: Total Area given by each day ............................................................................. 33
Figure 2: Percentage of Area given to Front and Inner Pages……………………………34
Table 2: Total Area given by Mathrubhumi on November ............................................... 34
Figure 3: Total Area given by each day ............................................................................. 35
Figure 4: Percentage of Space given to Front and Inner Pages ......................................... 36
Table 3: Total Area given by Times of India on November ............................................. 36
Figure 5: Total Area given by each day ............................................................................. 37
Figure 6: Total Area given to Front and Inner Pages......................................................... 38
Table 4: Total Area given by The Hindu on November .................................................... 38
Figure 7: Total Area given by each day ............................................................................. 39
Figure 8: Total Area given to Front and Inner Pages......................................................... 39
Table 5: Total Area given by Newspapers on November .................................................. 40
Figure 9: Total Area given to the Front and Inner Pages ................................................... 41
Table 6: Total Area given by Malayala Manorama on December..................................... 41
Figure 10: Total Area of each day ..................................................................................... 42
Figure 11: Percentage of Front and Inner pages ................................................................ 43
Table 7: Total Area given by Mathrubhumi on December ................................................ 43
Figure 12: Total Area given by each day ........................................................................... 44
Figure 13: Percentage of Space to Front and Inner Pages…………………………….….45
Table 8: Total Area given by Times of India on December………………………….…..45
Figure 14: Total Area given by each day……………………………………………...…46
Figure 15: Total Space given to Front and Inner pages………………………………….47
Table 9: Total Area given by the Hindu on December…………………………………..47
Figure 16: Total Area given by each day………………………………………………...48
Figure 17: Total Area given to Front and Inner Pages…………………………………...49
Table 10: Total Area given by each Newspaper on December…………………………..49
Figure 18: Total Area given by each Newspapers for Front and Inner Pages…………...50
xvTable 11: Total Area given by Malayala Manorama on January………………………51
Figure 19: Total Area given each day……………………………………………….....51
Figure 20: Total Space given to Front and Inner Pages………………………………..52
Table 11: Total Area given by Mathrubhumi on January……………………………...52
Figure 20: Total Area given by each day……………………………………………....53
Figure 21: Total Space given to Front and Inner Pages………………………………..54
Table 12: Total Area given by Times of India on January……………………………..54
Figure 22: Total Area given by each day…………………………………………….…55
Table 13: Total Area given by the Hindu on January…………………………………..56
Figure 23: Total Area given by each day……………………………………………….56
Figure 24: Total Area given to Front and Inner Pages……………………………...….57
Table 14: Total Area given by each Newspaper on January…………………………...57
Figure 25: Total Area given to Front and Inner Pages…………………………………58
Figure 26: Comparing all Three Months……………………………………………….60
Figure 27: Total Number of Articles Appeared in each Newspaper………………..….61
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Chapter 1
INTRODUCTION
Government of India appointed Dr.K Kasturirangan Committee under the
Ministry of Environment and Forest. The committee submitted its extensively studied
research to the ministry dealing with serious issues related to Western Ghats on 15th
April, 2013. The committee was headed by Dr. K.Kasturirangan consisted of other 10
members from various fields. The report was approved by MoEF on 18th October, 2013
which turned out be a mooted issues all over the country.
The committee suggested few important yet controversial suggestions like
Delimitation of Western Ghats territory, Review of few Hydropower projects like
Athirapally, Identified the ecologically sensitive areas in WGs and many others.
Such suggestions often received critical acceptance as well as resistance from
media houses, Activist and by the larger mass. This paper tries to evaluate the
phenomenon of news-views coverage in Print Media considering its peak discussed
period that is, from November 2013 to January 2014. The time constraint made the
researcher to restrict only to print media coverage in Kerala rather considering the other
forms of media platform‟s coverage.
The researcher has considered four newspapers in total for research with a
duration of three months that is Times of India, The Hindu, Malayala Manorama and
Mathrubhumi are the selected newspapers. The researcher has taken the
Thiruvanathapuram edition of all four newspapers for the purpose of analysis. The
researcher would like to understand and analyze whether the newspapers gave adequate
information on the issue for the readers. Did the newspapers provide enough information
(quantity and quality)? Are they giving enough space to the concerned people? What
actually the report says? What is it connects with Madhava Gadgil Report on the similar
lines? And their views and efforts in creating a discourse.The methodology followed is qualitative and quantitative in nature considering
four newspapers published between the periods of three months. Along with this, to have
more and deeper understanding, few prominent journalists will be telephonically
interviewed.
Western Ghats is a far reaching area traversing in excess of six States, 44 areas
and 142 taluks. It is the home of numerous imperilled plants and creatures. Western Ghats
have India's wealthiest wild in 13 national parks and a few asylums. Perceived by
UNESCO as one of the world's eight most paramount biodiversity hotspots, these forested
slopes are additionally source to various waterways, including Godavari, Krishna and
Cauvery. Western Ghats acts as a huge water tank supplying water to six states. Now
there are many leakages and there is water shortage. All the rivers are running dry now.
And wherever there is water, it is highly polluted. Western Ghats needs high attention in
the sustainability aspect of whole India and especially South India. Ministry of
Environment and Forests of India set up in March 2010 a master board (Gadgil
commission) to discover a methodology for rationing these Ghats.
Gadgil Commission, an environmental research commission is named after its
chairman Madhav Gadgil. The commission is formally known as Western Ghats Ecology
Expert Panel (WGEEP). The commission submitted the report to the Government of
India on 31 August 2011.
Gadgil board of trustees had famous biologists and their report excessively
reflected that. The report was named good to environment and tree huggers and not
improvement. There is an endless verbal confrontation in the middle of environment and
advancement; it is hard to adjust both without trading off the other.
The Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP) assigned the whole slope run
as an Ecologically Sensitive Area (ESA).
The board, in its report, has arranged the 142 taluks in the Western Ghats limit
into Ecologically Sensitive Zones (ESZ) 1, 2 and 3.
ESZ-1 being of high need, just about all formative exercises (mining, warm power
plants and so forth) was confined inGadgil report recommended that “no new
dams based on large-scale storage be permitted in Ecologically Sensitive Zone 1.
Since both the Athirappilly of Kerala and Gundia of Karnataka hydel project sites
fall in Ecologically Sensitive Zone 1, these projects should not be accorded
environmental clearance,” it said.
2 Gadgil Committee report specifies that the present system of governance of the
environment should be changed. It asked for bottom to top approach (right from
Gram sabhas) rather than a top to bottom approach. It also asked for
decentralization and more powers to local authorities.
The major criticisms faced by Gagdil Committee report are:-
It was not in tune with the ground realities and was more environment-friendly.
Recommendations were cited as impractical to implement.
Gadgil report has asked for complete eco-sensitive cover for Western Ghats which
hamper different states on energy and development fronts.
There was criticism against the constitution of a new body called WGEA. States
insist that protection can be given under existing laws.
Gadgil report doesn‟t give solution for revenue losses due to implementation of its
recommendations.
Report is against dams in Western Ghats, which is a crucial blow on the ailing
power sector. Considering the growing energy needs of India, critics argue that
this recommendation cannot be taken.
The Gadgil Committee report adversely affects the various mafia. When the
Gadgil Committee report was first made public, there were a lot of protests against
it from the sand mining and quarrying lobbies in Goa. Many mafias created fear
among farmers in Kerala that the Gadgil report is against them, and that they will
lose livelihood if its recommendations are implemented.
Ministry of environment and forests kept the Gadgil report in safe custody for
eight months with them. It was not available for public discussion as expected by Gadgil
committee members. People asked for a copy, but the ministry said it could not be given.
When an RTI petition was filed, it was not given. Then the matter is taken to the Delhi
high court and only when the court passed an order, the ministry released the report.
The court ordered that all the reports should be put on web sites. Now it‟s there in
the ministry website and for those who want to read the 522 page report, the link for the
same is: Madhav Gadgil Committe report. As many mafias created fear among the people
that the Gadgil report is anti-farmer and anti-people, people burnt the Gadgil Committee
report and the effigy of the well-known environmentalist, Madhav Gadgil.
The problem was that most people had not read it. So, the mining lobby took
advantage of this aspect and misled the people. They convinced the people against the
3report in their favour. The lobby told the people that the report was against farmers and
they would have to leave the area. People got really worried. And it is in this background
that another committee was appointed to study Gadgil Report, review and suggest
measures for implementation. The name of the committee was Kasturirangan committee.
As said earlier, the Kasturirangan committe was consituted to examine the
WGEEP report. The committee is often called HLWG – high-level working group
(HLWG) with 10 members, headed by Kasturirangan.
Instead of the total area of Western Ghats, only 37% (i.e. 60,000 sq. km.) of the
total area is brought under ESA under Kasturirangan report.
Complete boycott on mining, quarrying and sand mining in ESA.
Distinguished between cultural (58% occupied in Western Ghats by it like human
settlements, agricultural fields and plantations) and natural landscape (90% of it
should come under ESA according to committee).
Current mining regions in the ESA ought to be eliminated inside the following
five years, or at the time of expiry of mining lease, whichever is prior.
No thermal power is allowed and hydropower ventures be permitted just after
itemized study.
Red industries i.e. which are highly polluting be strictly banned in these areas.
Kasturirangan report on Western Ghats has made several pro-farmer
recommendations, including the exclusion of inhabited regions and plantations
from the purview of ecologically sensitive areas (ESAs).
The Kasturirangan report had said 123 villages fall under the ESA purview.
Criticisms of Kasturirangan committee Repor are :-
The Kasturirangan board utilized remote sensing and elevated review techniques
for zonal boundary of area in Western Ghats. The utilization of such methods,
without looking at the ground reality, has created numerous blunders in the repor
The power is vested with the bureaucrats and forest officials and not with gram
sabhas.
Many expect that the farmers would get removed if the Kasturirangan Committee
report is executed. Under this report, the mining and quarrying halls are required
to prosper. At the point when these entryways and tourism thrive, it will be heart-
breaking for the nature's turf. There will be water deficiency, there will be
4contamination. At long last, agriculturists will need to stop the zone. They won't
have the capacity to do cultivating there.
Many villages was included after the use of “erroneous method” under
Ecologically Sensitive Areas (ESA) though there were no forest land and only
rubber plantations.
Kasturirangan report included ecologically non-sensitive areas under ESA, and
left out many ecologically sensitive areas.
Whenever we study environment, the evergreen topic of debate is between
environment and development. It is tough to achieve a perfect balance. The same
happened with both these reports. If Gadgil report laid too much importance to
environment, Kasturirangan report was biased towards development. Kasturi rangan
report was criticized by many as that it provided loopholes for mining, which if allowed
would turn detrimental for environment, in long term will affect development too.
Kasturirangan report got the tag as anti-environmental soon after its release. But this
report was tagged anti-development too by many who fear that their livelihood and
interests will be affected.
Gadgil's Western Ghats (Western Ghats scene over 1, 29,037 sq km.) is littler than
that of Kasturirangan's (Western Ghats scene, as per Kasturirangan is 1, 64,280 sq km).
Gadgil report stamped out 60 percent of the Western Ghats as the most noteworthy need
Ecologically Sensitive Zone (ESZ -1). Kasturirangan report checks just 37 percent range
(however considers more extensive Western Ghat limits) as ESA. Gadgil's report
proposed to pronounce this whole scene as ESA, making three Eszs inside it. He
recommended that the current havens and ESZ-1 would together cover 60 percent of this
scene. The 25 percent least need zones would be checked as ESZ-3 to permit all
formative exercises with safety measures. The staying 15 percent region would get to be
ESZ-2. Case in point, while no mining would be permitted inside ESZ- 1, current mines
could proceed in ESZ-2 with a ban on new licenses. In ESZ-3, new mines could come up.
The Kasturirangan board, then again, received the criteria took after by the Western Ghats
Development Program of the Planning Commission and recognized 188 talukas as its
Western Ghats scene, which worked out to 1,64,280 sq km.
He denoted 37 percent of this stretch as ESA where unsafe businesses, warm
plants or mines would not be permitted. As a result, the limitation level of Kasturirangan's
5ESA relates to that of Gadgil's ESZ-1. Presently, as indicated by the Gadgil report, the
ESZ-1 territories indicate roughly 77,000 sq. km (60 percent of 1, 29,037 sq km).
Kasturirangan's ESA, then again, represents around 60,000 sq km (37 percent of 1,
64,280 sq km). That is a diminishment of 17,000 sq. km in the top need section.As people
turned violent and started protests, Oomman Chandy, Chief Minister of Kerala set up an
expert committee. The expert committee submitted the report to chief minister Oommen
Chandy, which was appointed by the State Government to make an indepth study om
Kasthurirngan Report.
The recommendations made by the committee are:-
The council proposed the administration to roll out improvements in the provisos
of Environmentally Fragile Land (EFL) in the Western Ghats.
The Oommen Committee reported that genuine omissions happened in deciding
the EFL ranges. The board of trustees received satellite overview to focus EFL
and even ranches and bequests were incorporated in it.
It likewise suggested ceasing area securing transactions as per the Kasturirangan
board of trustees report.
The panel has made several pro-farmer recommendations, including the exclusion
of inhabited regions and plantations from the purview of ecologically sensitive
areas (ESAs). The Kasturirangan report had said 123 villages fall under the ESA
purview.
The state-level panel said a field survey should be held in places that the Madhav
Gadgil and Kasturirangan reports have identified as ESAs to demarcate forest land
and human settlements. After examining the population density of these areas,
human settlements should be exempted from the category of ESAs.
It also said farmers should not be stopped from rearing hybrid varieties of milking
animals and suggested that the grace period given to shift to organic farming be
extended from five years to 10 years.
The report said forest areas should be fenced to prevent the animals straying into
it.
Farmers were worried of Gadgil report, fearing their eviction. They fear the same
of Kasturirangan report too. Though there are many who treat Kasturirangan report as a
more practical report, the truth is that Gadgil report was not anti-farmer. Additionally
6individuals had misguided judgments on Ecologically Fragile Lands (EFL) and
Ecologically Sensitive Areas (ESA). Both of them were diverse ideas under distinctive
laws–the first under backwoods office and the recent under the region organization and
contamination control board. And remember that protests often are not due to love
towards environment, but often because of fear of eviction or loss of livelihood. Centre
issued an office request in November 2013 administering prompt usage of five
recommendations in the Kasturirangan report. This was the prompt incitement for the
disturbance. Later, the focal government looked for the feeling of the five states in
executing the report. Dialogs were still on and the administration had asked the state
governments to submit their perspectives on the report.
Ministry of Environment had enough reports (Gadgil and Kasturirangan; Ooman
committee was state-level), but still they didn‟t take any action. The reports were neither
available in the public domain nor the opinion of states were asked. A bench headed by
NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar forced a fine of Rs 25,000 on the service for
neglecting to document its last give an account of proposals of two boards set up to study
natural affectability and biological importance of the Western Ghats, saying better
principles were normal from it.
The Kasturirangan board had submitted its report for the Ministry on April 15,
2013. It was placed in broad daylight area furthermore scattered to all stakeholders
including the six Western Ghats states including Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Goa,
Kerala and Tamil Nadu for input and remarks. Running with the suggestions of the
abnormal state board that was going by Mr. Kasturirangan, the Ministry has chosen to
pronounce the ESA in excess of 37% of the Western Ghats under the Environment
Protection Act, 1986. With the focal government choosing to actualize the Kasturirangan
Committee give an account of the Western Ghats, there were a few dissents in Kerala.
Indeed the individuals who contradicted the Gadgil Committee report now need it set up
of the Kasturirangan Committee report. Individuals now expect that because of illicit
mining they would get ousted by implication. Going against the proposal of the
Environment Secretary, the Minister held the criteria to leave regions with high-thickness
of populace out of this managed zone's ambit.
The abnormal state board had suggested that the slope tracts with high populace
densities be kept out of the ESA ambit. The Moef as of late turned out with the request,
and as per bearings under Section 5 of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986, bars
7mining in environmentally delicate regions (EFA not to be mistaken for ESA), setting up
of warm plants and confines structures to short of what 20,000 sq ft in 123 towns said in
the K. Kasturirangan report of the state.
1.1 An Overview of Newspapers
1.1.1 Malayala Manorama
Malayala Manorama is a daily newspaper in Malayalam language, published from
Kottayam in the state of Kerala, India by Malayala Manorama Company Limited. It was
initially distributed as a week by week on 14 March 1890, and at present has a readership
of in excess of 20 million (with a flow base of in excess of 2.1 million duplicates). The
Malayalam title "manorama" generally means "performer".
As indicated by World Association of Newspapers, starting 2011, it holds a
position as top eleventh most circling daily paper on the planet. As per the Audit Bureau
of Circulations (ABC) 2013 figures, it is the fourth biggest flowing daily papers in India
(behind Dainik Bhaskar, The Times of India and Dainik Jagran) and biggest coursing
daily paper in Kerala. It is otherwise called face daily paper of congress gathering.
Malayala Manorama,is possessed by single family, known as the Kandathils.
Malayala Manorama Company was joined by Kandathil Varghese Mappillai at Kottayam
on 14 March 1888. The organization began with one hundred shares of Rs 100 each. The
financial specialists paid in four equivalent portions. With the first portion, the
organization brought a Hopkinson and Cope press, made in London. A neighborhood
specialist, Konthi Achari, was enlisted to make Malayalam sorts for the foreign press.
Mappillai had worked for every year as manager of Kerala Mitram, a Malayalam
daily paper run by Gujarati specialist Devji Bhimji, in Cochin. The maharajah of
Travancore Moolam Thirunal affirmed the logo of the daily paper which was a slight
adjustment of the Travancore Coat of Arms.
First and foremost issue of Malayala Manorama distributed 22 March 1890, while
Kottayam was facilitating prevalent dairy cattle reasonable. It was a four page week by
week daily paper, distributed on Saturdays. The week after week daily paper turned into a
bi-week after week in 1901, a tri-week after week on 2 July 1918 and every day on 2 July
81928. In 1938, Travancore state restricted Malayala Manorama day by day. Later
proofreader K. C. Mammen Mappillai was indicted and detained on charges of
debasement and misrepresentation. Malayala Manorama re-started normal distribution in
1947.
On KC Mammen Mappilla's demise, his child KM Cheriyan assumed control as
the Editor-in-Chief in 1954. Malayala Manorama was delivered in a solitary version in
the focal Kerala town of Kottayam with a dissemination of 28,666 duplicates.
However by the late 1950s, Manorama relentlessly expanded dissemination and
surpassed Mathrubhumi available for use, the predominant Malayalam day by day at the
time. Nonetheless, in the same way as Mathrubhumi, it just delighted in wide
achievement in its own particular residential community and its neighborhoods.
K. M. Mathew, who assumed responsibility as manager in 1973, started an
arrangement of redesigns, pretty much as the Anandabazar Patrika did Bengal. He got an
arrangement of experts in the administration, specialized and article regions, and
acknowledged their direction. He led continuous preparing sessions for Manorama writers
and different workers. The organization rebuilt their association in 1980. KM Mathew
said that the choice originated from the acknowledgment that the everyday had either to
end up "completely expert" or "danger decay". Mathew sent his best writers and
supervisors to preparing schools far and wide, and foreign made the best systems in
universal news coverage and daily paper generation, which acquired a contemporary look
and feel to Malayala Manorama. In 1979, another printing focus was dispatched at
Cochin and in 1987; the Trivandrum version was likewise propelled. By 1998, the course
of Malayala Manorama was expanded to 1 million. In mid-2000s, the day by day began
units in the Middle East, concentrating on the substantial Malayalee populace in the
locale. Mathew is credited with the presentation of the idea of "editionalising" with bigger
offer for neighborhood news and peruser agreeable bundling through expert page
planning in Manorama, which thus affected the whole daily paper industry in Kerala. By
2007, Manorama turn into the main territorial dialect day by day in India to cross 1. 5
million duplicates available for use.
K. M. Mathew was succeeded by his child Mammen Mathew in 2010. "In what
could just be portrayed as an irregularity then in Indian dialect news-casting, Mathew
demonstrated an unordinary responsibility to modernisation and professionalism and
turned into a good example for the daily paper industry, which in the early 1980s was at
9the discriminating point of leaving on a period of fantastic extension." The Hindu
applauded KM Mathew in their tribute.
According to ABC January–june 2013 figures, Malayala Manorama holds a
course of 2.1 million perusers.
The printing focuses of Malayala Manorama included Kottayam, Kozhikode,
Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Thrissur, Kannur, Kollam, Palakkad, Malappuram,
Pathanamthitta, Alappuzha, Mangalore, Bangalore, Chennai, Mumbai, Delhi, Dubai,
Manama and Doha.
1.1.2 Mathrubhumi
Considered as the mouthpiece of India's freedom movement, Mathrubhumi is one
of the front runners among the Malayalam daily papers. The main duplicate of
Mathrubhumi was distributed on eighteenth of March 1923 - the day preceding the first
celebration of Mahatma Gandhi's capture shockingly by the British police.
Headed by K.p.kesava Menon, the noticeable opportunity warrior, as Editor and
K. Madhavannair as Managing Director, Mathrubhumi was imagined for spreading the
message of the extraordinary National Movement. In the first place, the paper was
distributed a week and had only one release from Kozhikode (Calicut). A daily paper
conceived out of persistent energy of opportunity warriors, Mathrubhumi went ahead to
turn into an unavoidable part of Kerala's social fabric.
The historical backdrop of Mathrubhumi is synonymous with the historical
backdrop of the state's flexibility development, and that of Indian National Congress.
Before Mathrubhumi started to exist, there were four Malayalam News Papers ('Kerala
Patrika', 'Kozhikodan Manorama' , 'Kerala Sanchari " and 'Mithavadi ') and three English
News Papers ('Champion', 'West Coast Reformer 'and 'Onlooker'), which were generally
distributed from Kozhikode. Yet none of these papers supported the flexibility
development initiated by the Congress. Rather, they upheld the British Rule.
K.p Kesava Menon, who was then Secretary of Kerala State Congress Committee,
understood the earnest requirement for a star flexibility development production from the
Malabar area. Furthermore he, alongside his comrades like K.madhavan Nair, Kuroor
Neelakandan Nampoothirippad, K. Kesavan Nair and P. Achuthan, determined to enlist
The Mathrubhumi Printing and Publishing Company Limited with an approved capital of
Rs.1, 00,000/ - in 20,000 shares of Rs.5/ - each. In any case, the Company had the
10capacity gather a measure of Rs.15, 000/ - just. What's more the enlistment occurred on
fifteenth of February 1922.
K. Madhavan Nair turned into the first Managing Director of the Company. Be
that as it may, months after the fact, he surrendered from the position because of reasons
exceptionally individual, supplanted by K.p Kesava Menon. On thirteenth of November
1922, the Company gained the Empress Victoria Press claimed by Kuruppathu Kesava
Menon.
The principal version of the paper conveyed a solid message of backing for the
National Movement and a vow to bind together the un-sorted out Malayalees. The article
had an exceptional energetic tone; pushing on the requirement for genuine flexibility from
dissimilarity, divisions and bends. Additionally, it communicated a readiness to remained
with the everyday people amid their hardships in life. Based on solid journalistic morals
and high stylish viewpoint, Mathrubhumi soon exceeded expectations all different daily
papers of that time; and all the while modifying the historical backdrop of Malayalam
daily papers.
Extraordinary Poets like Vallathol Narayana Menon regularly communicated their
enthusiastic emotions through the sections of the Mathrubhumi, moving the flexibility
contenders. Numerous devoted tunes, stories and gimmicks were promoted among the
plebians and additionally the news and actualities about the flexibility development.
From that point forward the Mathrubhumi has not thought back. Up and down the
line, it has reliably assumed urgent parts in social renewal developments, for example, the
'Vaikom Satyagraha' and the 'Guruvayur Satyagraha'. The day the Vaikom Satyagraha
started (April 1, 1924), the Mathrubhumi turned out with an unforgiving and sharp
feedback against the social segregation honed in Kerala. Also, while effectively taking
part in the Satyagraha, K.p Keasava Menon was captured and sent to the Pujappura
Central Jail at Thriuvananthapuram. Famous identities like P. Ramunni Menon, K.
Kelappan, P. Narayanan Nair, C.h. Kunjappa, V.m Nair, K. A Damodara Menon et cetera
served as Editors of the paper.
On various events Mathrubhumi had run into inconvenience for supporting the
National development. The Madras Government requested to supply a safeguard of
Rs.2000/ - for an article piece that showed up on seventh September 1932, which
reprobated the British tenet. Therefore the paper was compelled to distribute without the
articles until January 11, 1933. Essentially, amid the Quit India development in 1942 the
11Mathrubhumi needed to relinquish the article section. Furthermore for distributed a
gimmick on the European fighters' bad conduct with ladies in Kochi, the Government had
the Mathrubhumi banned. Be that as it may solid challenges against the choice made the
Government cross out the request. Thus, the daily paper was banned in the Travancore
area for a long time for an arrangement of articles it composed against the fascism of
Diwan Sir. C.p Ramaswami Iyer.
In 1932, with the dispatch of 'Mathrubhumi Illustrated Weekly', the organization
entered another period that sustained the professions of most titans of Malayalam writing,
in the same way as Jnanpith laureates G.sankara Kurup, S.k.pottakkad, Thakazhi
Sivasankara Pillai and M.t Vasudevan Nair. It still is the head abstract magazine in
Malayalam, distributed the absolute most energizing voices in the verse and fiction.
In 1940, the Mathrubhumi dispatched a clever magazine, Viswaroopam, with
Sanjayan as the Editor. Yugaprabhat, a bi-month to month in Hindi, was additionally
distributed with N.v Krishna Warrier as Editor. These two productions are no more in
print.
In 1979 the Company dispatched Grihalakshmi, a magazine solely for the ladies
of Kerala. Chitrabhumi in 1982, a magazine cooking the diversions of the Malayalam
film buffs, tailed it. The week by week for employment prospects Thozilvartha was
dispatched in 1992. Following two years, it was the turn of Mathrubhumi Sports Masika,
a month to month solely for the games darlings. Balabhumi for youngsters turned out in
1996 and in 1997 the wellbeing magazine in Malayalam, Mathrubhumi Arogyamasika
happened.
Mathrubhumi Books, the distributed house, has officially made a characteristic of
its own in Malayalam Publishing industry. The house has distributed both the fictions and
non-fictions of very nearly all the well-known authors in Malayalam.
On fifth September, 1997 the Company propelled the online version
www.mathrubhumi.com for the worldwide Malayalees. Also in the month of June, 2005
the web version was redesigned as an entrance with numerous channels.
The organization entered the universe of TV and broadcasting with a noteworthy
generation house, MBTV (Mathrubhumi Television), which has been creating Serials and
Telefilms of the most astounding quality. Making a stride into the universe of television,
the gathering has dispatched FM stations in four noteworthy locale of Kerala, to be
specific Thiruvananthapuram, Ernakulam, Thrissur and Kannur. Presently with fifteen
12releases - ten in Kerala, ones in New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangaluru, Chennai and Dubai- it
has an amazing flow of in excess of 1.5 million duplicates.
1.1.3 Times of India
The Times of India (TOI) is a English-daily newspaper. It is the biggest daily
paper in India by dissemination and biggest offering English-dialect every day in the
world as indicated by Audit Bureau of Circulations (India). As per the Indian Readership
Survey (IRS) 2012, the Times of India is the most broadly perused English daily paper in
India with a readership of 7.643 million. This position the Times of India as the top
English every day in India by readership.
It is possessed and distributed by Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. which is claimed
by the Sahu Jain crew. In the Brand Trust Report 2012, Times of India was positioned
88th among India's most trusted brands and thusly, as per the Brand Trust Report 2013,
Times of India was positioned 100th among India's most trusted brands. In 2014 be that
as it may, Times of India was positioned 174th among India's most trusted brands as per
the Brand Trust Report 2014, a study directed by Trust Research Advisory.
The Times of India issued its first version 3 November 1838 as The Bombay
Times and Journal of Commerce. The paper distributed Wednesdays and Saturdays under
the bearing of Raobahadur Narayan Dinanath Velkar, a Maharashtrian Reformist, and
contained news from Britain and the world, and additionally the Indian Subcontinent. In
1850, it started to distribute day by day releases.
In 1860, editorial manager Robert Knight (1825–1892) purchased the Indian
shareholders' hobbies, consolidated with opponent Bombay Standard, and began India's
first news organization. It wired Times dispatches to papers the nation over and turned
into the Indian operators for Reuters news administration. In 1861, he changed the name
from the Bombay Times and Standard to The Times of India. Knight battled for a press
free of earlier restriction or intimidation, regularly opposing the endeavors by
governments, business engages, and social representatives and headed the paper to
national conspicuousness. In the nineteenth century, this daily paper organization utilized
more than 800 individuals and had a sizeable course in India and Europe.
Along these lines, The Times of India saw its possession change a few times until
1892, when Thomas Bennett and Frank Morris Coleman, who suffocated in the 1915
13sinking of the SS Persia, procured the daily paper through their new organization, Bennet,
Coleman & Co. Ltd.
In 1946, they sold the organization to sugar financier Ramkrishna Dalmya, of the
then-renowned mechanical family, Dalmiyas, for Rs 20 million. In 1948, Dalmiya sold
the daily paper to his child in-law Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain, a part of the Kunal Jain
gathering of Bijnore, Uttar Pradesh, to pay an obligation he owed to an insurance agency.
In the early 1960s, Jain was detained on charges of offering newsprint on the
underground market, and the Government of India expected control of the daily paper
supplanting 50% of the chiefs and selecting a Bombay (now Mumbai) High Court judge
as the Chairman.
In 1976, amid the crisis in India, the legislature exchanged responsibility for daily
paper again to Ashok Jain (Shanti Prasad's child and the father of Samir Jain and Vineet
Jain).
The Times of India is distributed by the media bunch Bennett, Coleman & Co.
Ltd. The organization, alongside its other gathering organizations, known as The Times
Group, likewise distributes Ahmedabad Mirror; Bangalore Mirror; Bangalore Times,
Delhi Times; The Economic Times; Ei Samay, (a Bengali every day); the Maharashtra
Times,; Mumbai Mirror; the Navbharat Times; and Pune Mirror.
The Times of India has its businesses in significant urban areas, for example,
Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Aurangabad, Bangalore, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Calicut,
Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur,
Kolhapur, Kolkata, Madurai, Patna, Puducherry, Pune, Kochi, Lucknow, Nagpur, Nashik,
Panaji, Mysore, Hubli, Mangalore,raipur, Ranchi, Surat, Trichy, Trivandrum, Varanasi
and Visakhapatnam.
1.1.4 The Hindu
The Hindu is an English-language Indian daily newspaper. Headquartered at
Chennai, The Hindu was distributed week by week when it was propelled in 1878, and
began distributed every day in 1889. As indicated by the Indian Readership Survey in
2012, it was the third most broadly perused English daily paper in India, with a readership
of 2.2 million individuals. The Hindu has its biggest base of course in southern India, and
is the most broadly perused English day by day daily paper in Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
14As per the Audit Bureau of Circulations, The Hindu had a flow of 1.39 million
duplicates as of December 2013. The undertaking utilized in excess of 1,600 specialists
and yearly turnover arrived at very nearly $200 million in 2010. Membership and notice
are significant wellsprings of pay. The Hindu got to be, in 1995, the first Indian daily
paper to offer an online version. As of October 2014, it is printed at 17 areas over eight
states Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Thiruvananthapuram, Vijayawada, Kolkata,
Coimbatore, Madurai, Noida, Visakhapatnam, Kochi, Mangalore, Tiruchirapalli, Hubli,
Mohali, Allahabad, and Kozhikode. The Hindu had likewise distributed a Lucknow
version amid the 2013-14 periods.
The Hindu was established in Madras on 20 September 1878 as a week after
week, by what was referred to then as the Triplicane Six comprising of 4 law understudies
and 2 teachers. The Triplicane Six comprised of law understudies T. T. Rangachariar, P.
V. Rangachariar, D. Kesava Rao Pantulu and N. Subba Rao Pantulu headed by G.
Subramania Iyer (a teacher from Tanjore locale) and M. Veeraraghavachariar (a speaker
at Pachaiyappa's College). The Hindu was begun to help the fight of Sir T. Muthuswamy
Iyer for a judgeship at the Madras High Court and to balance the publicity against him did
by the Anglo-Indian press. The Hindu was one of the numerous daily papers of the period
built to dissent against the oppressive approaches of the British government in India.
Around 80 duplicates of the inaugural issue were printed at Srinidhi Press, Georgetown
on one rupee and twelves annas of obtained cash. Subramania Iyer turned into the first
supervisor and Veeraraghavachariar, the first overseeing chief of the daily paper.
The paper was at first liberal in its viewpoint and is currently viewed as left
inclining. The paper at first printed from Srinidhi Press yet later proceeded onward
Scottish Press, then, The Hindu Press, Mylapore, lastly to the National Press on Mount
Road. Begun as a week by week daily paper, the paper turned into a tri-week after week
in 1883 and a nighttime every day in 1889. A solitary duplicate of the daily paper was
estimated at four annas.
The business regions moved to rented premises at 100 Mount Road on 3
December 1883. The everyday paper started printing at its own specific press there,
named "The National Press," which was made on acquired capital as open enrollments
were not anticipated. The incorporating itself turned with The Hindu's in 1892, after the
Maharaja of Vizianagaram, Pusapati Ananda Gajapati Raju, gave The National Press a
development both for the building and to finish obliged improvement.
15Its article stances have earned The Hindu the epithet, the Maha Vishnu of Mount
Road. After 1887, when the yearly session of Indian National Congress was held in
Madras, the paper's scope of national news expanded fundamentally, and prompted the
paper turning into a night day by day beginning 1 April 1889.
The organization in the middle of Veeraraghavachariar and Subramania Iyer was
broken up in October 1898. Iyer quit the paper and Veeraraghavachariar turned into the
sole manager and selected C. Karunakara Menon as supervisor. Notwithstanding, The
Hindu 's adventurousness started to decrease in the 1900s along these lines did its flow,
which was down to 800 duplicates when the sole proprietor chose to offer out. The buyer
was The Hindu 's Legal Adviser from 1895, S. Kasturi Ranga Iyengar, a politically goal-
oriented legal counselor who had relocated from a Kumbakonam town to practice in
Coimbatore and from thereupon to Madras. Kasturi Ranga Iyengar's progenitors had
served the courts of Vijayanagar and Mahratta Tanjore. He exchanged law, in which his
prosperity was ordinary however his advantage insignificant, for news-casting, seeking
after his inclination for legislative issues sharpened in Coimbatore and by his relationship
with the `egmore Group' headed by C. Sankaran Nair and Dr T.m. Nair. From that point
forward the daily paper has been claimed totally by the parts of the Kasturi Ranga Iyengar
crew.
In the late 1980s when its proprietorship passed under the control of the family's
more youthful parts, a change in political inclining was watched. Worldpress.org records
The Hindu as a left-inclining free daily paper. Joint overseeing chief N. Murali said in
July 2003, N. Ram was delegated on 27 June 2003 as its supervisor in-boss with an order
to "enhance the structures and different components to maintain and reinforce quality and
objectivity in news reports and assessment pieces", approved to "rebuild the article
system and capacities in accordance with the focused environment". On 3 and 23
September 2003, the peruser's letters segment conveyed reactions from perusers saying
the article was one-sided. A publication in August 2003 watched that the daily paper was
influenced by the 'editorializing as news reporting' infection, and communicated a
determination to evade the pattern, restore the professionally sound lines of division, and
fortify objectivity and factuality in its scope.
In 1987–88, The Hindu's scope of the Bofors arms bargain outrage, an
arrangement of archive upheld exclusives, set the terms of the national political talk on
this subject. The Bofors embarrassment softened up April 1987 with Swedish Radio
16affirming that influences had been paid to top Indian political pioneers, authorities and
Army officers as an exchange for the Swedish arms assembling organization winning a
strong contract with the Government of India for the buy of 155 mm howitzers. Amid a
six-month period, the daily paper distributed scores of duplicates of unique papers that
recorded the mystery installments, adding up to $50 million, into Swiss financial
balances, the understandings behind the installments, interchanges identifying with the
installments and the emergency reaction, and other material. The examination was headed
by low maintenance journalist of The Hindu, Chitra Subramaniam, reporting from
Geneva, and was upheld by Ram in Chennai. The outrage was a significant humiliation to
the gathering in force at the core, the Indian National Congress, and its pioneer Prime
Minister Rajiv Gandhi. The paper's publication blamed the Prime Minister for being
gathering to enormous misrepresentation and concealment.
In 1991, Deputy Editor N. Ravi, Ram's more youthful sibling, supplanted G.
Kasturi as proofreader. Nirmala Lakshman, Kasturi Srinivasan's granddaughter and the
first lady from the family to hold a publication or managerial part, got to be Joint Editor
of The Hindu and her sister, Malini Parthasarathy, Executive Editor.
In 2003, the Jayalalitha administration of the condition of Tamil Nadu, of which
Chennai is the capital, documented bodies of evidence against The Hindu for break of
benefit of the state administrative body. The move was seen as a legislature's strike on
flexibility of the press. The paper gathered backing from the journalistic group.
An upgrade structure 14 April 2005 (by Mario Garcia and Jan Kny) was said to
empower "photos, different representation, and white space to have an upgraded part on
the pages" and to give the peruser "more intelligible typography, an effective indexing or
"route" framework, an acceptable progression of stories, another and complex color
palette".
On 2 April 2013 The Hindu began "The Hindu in School" with S. Shivakumar as
manager. This is another release for youthful perusers, to be appropriated through schools
as a component of The Hindu's "Daily paper in Education" program. It covers the day's
vital news improvements, peculiarities, sports, and territorial news. On 16 September
2013, The Hindu gathering propelled its Tamil version with K. Ashokan as supervisor.
The daily paper has remote bureaux in eleven areas – Islamabad, Colombo,
Dhaka, Kathmandu, Beijing, Moscow, Paris, Dubai, Washington DC, London, and most
as of late Addis Ababa.
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