Malayala Manorama began as a four-page Malayalam weekly on 22 March 1890 in Kottayam, founded by Kandathil Varghese Mappillai, whose Malayala Manorama Company…
On 14 March 1888, Kandathil Varghese Mappillai established the Malayala Manorama Company in Kottayam with 100 shares of Rs 100 each, financing a Hopkinson & Cope treadle…
A four-page Malayalam weekly appeared for the first time, published every Saturday. Its first editorial addressed education for the Pulayas, and its founder deliberately…
After moving from weekly (1890) to bi-weekly (7 August 1901) to tri-weekly (2 July 1918), the newspaper became a daily on 16 January 1928, entering the publishing rhythm…
The Travancore government proscribed the paper on 10 September 1938 amid a political conflict tied to the struggle over representative government and civil liberties. A…
After roughly nine years of silence, the newspaper resumed regular publication on 29 November 1947, months after Indian independence. In 1948 it began campaigning for th…
After 78 years based solely in Kottayam, the company opened its first printing unit elsewhere, in Kozhikode, extending its reach into the Malabar region.
From the 1970s, large-scale Malayali migration to the Gulf created a transnational readership. Through the 1980s the organisation expanded into magazines and books, and…
Audit Bureau of Circulations figures for January-December 2023, reported by the paper in April 2024, put average daily circulation at 18,16,081 copies, the highest among…
In 2024, Canadian designer Lucie Lacava led a major typographic and visual redesign. By 2026, the organisation publishes from 18 centres, 11 in Kerala plus Delhi, Mumbai…
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