Malayala Manorama
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The Most Read Newspaper in Malayalam.
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Malayala Manorama Company Limited |
| Founder(s) | Kandathil Varghese Mappillai |
| Publisher | Jacob Mathew |
| Editor-in-chief | Mammen Mathew |
| Managing editors | Philip Mathew |
| Founded | 1888 |
| Political alignment | Centre-right |
| Language | Malayalam |
| Ceased publication | 1938 |
| Relaunched | 1947 |
| Headquarters | Kottayam (Kerala) |
| Circulation | 2,342,747 Daily (as of Jul - Dec 2015) |
| Website | www |
Malayala Manorama (Malayalam: മലയാള മനോരമ) is a daily morning newspaper, in Malayalam language, published from Kottayam in the state of Kerala, India by Malayala Manorama Company Limited. It was first published as a weekly on 22 March 1890, and currently has a readership of over 20 million (with a circulation base of over 2.1 million copies). The Malayalam title "Manorama" roughly translates to "entertainer". It is also the second oldest newspaper in Kerala in circulation, after Deepika, which is also published from Kottayam.
According to World Association of Newspapers, as of 2011, it holds a position as the fifth most circulating newspaper in the world. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) 2013 figures, it is the third largest circulating newspapers in India (behind The Times of India and Dainik Jagran) and largest circulating newspaper in Kerala.
The Malayala Manorama Company is a private LLC corporation owned by the Kandathil family of Kottayam. Malayala Manorama Company was incorporated by Kandathil Varghese Mappillai at Kottayam on 14 March 1888. The company started with one hundred shares of Rs 100 each. The investors paid in four equal instalments. With the first instalment, the company brought a Hopkinson and Cope press, made in London. A local craftsman, Konthi Achari, was hired to make Malayalam types for the imported press.
Mappillai had worked for a year as editor of Kerala Mitram, a Malayalam newspaper run by Gujarati businessman Devji Bhimji, in Cochin. The maharajah of Travancore Moolam Thirunal approved the logo of the newspaper which was a slight modification of the Travancore Coat of Arms, which is now used by the Government of Kerala with slight modifications.
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