Anandabazar Patrika is a Bengali-language daily newspaper launched in Calcutta on 13 March 1922 by Suresh Chandra Majumdar and editor Prafulla Kumar Sarkar. It…
On 13 March 1922, proprietor Suresh Chandra Majumdar and editor Prafulla Kumar Sarkar launched Anandabazar Patrika as a four-page evening daily, printed entirely in red…
By 1925 the paper had grown to 16 pages with its first byline; in 1926 it published its first Sharadiya (Durga Puja) special issue. The annual tradition became a fixture…
Under the Indian Press (Emergency Powers) Act of 1931, colonial authorities imposed financial securities on the paper over 1933 articles alleged to promote disaffection.…
After covering Subhas Chandra Bose's dramatic 1941 escape to Axis territory, the paper reported the August 1942 Quit India movement while operating under wartime censors…
In August 1947, amid severe communal violence, Anandabazar Patrika and Jugantar published editorials supporting partition as a possible response to the crisis - a positi…
Migration from East Pakistan continued for years after 1947. Anandabazar Patrika became a central forum for reporting on refugee relief and rehabilitation, with research…
According to Anandabazar's own centenary retrospective, the paper carried material about Bangladesh essentially every day from the start of 1971, especially March throug…
An internet edition launched in the 2000s, extending the paper beyond Calcutta and West Bengal to Bengali readers across India and the global diaspora - the first time t…
On 13 March 2022, exactly a century after its 1922 launch, Anandabazar Patrika reached its centenary. It now operates as part of the wider ABP Group, spanning print, tel…
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