Mathrubhumi Books
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | The Mathrubhumi Printing and Publishing Company Ltd. |
| Publisher | P. V. Chandran |
| Editor | M. Kesava Menon |
| Founded | 1923 |
| Headquarters | Kozhikode |
| Circulation | 1,486,810 Daily (as of Jul - Dec 2015) |
| Website | mathrubhumi.com |
Mathrubhumi (Malayalam: മാതൃഭൂമി) is a Malayalam language newspaper that is published from Kerala, India. Mathrubhumi was founded by K. P. Kesava Menon, an active volunteer in the Indian freedom struggle against the British. The word "Mathrubhumi" roughly translates to "mother land". It is the second most widely read newspaper daily in Kerala, after Malayala Manorama. They also publish a variety of magazines and supplements including the prestigious weekly literary magazine, Mathrubhumi Azhchappathippu.
Based in the northern Kerala town of Kozhikode, Mathrubhumi was founded in 1922 in the aftermath of Mahatma Gandhi's non-cooperation movement as a public limited company. This status makes it rare among newspapers, which tend to be closely held private companies owned by a single family.
K.P Kesava Menon, who was then Secretary of Kerala State Congress Committee, realized the urgent need for a pro-freedom movement publication from the Malabar region. And he, along with his confidants like K. Madhavan Nair, Kurur Neelakandan Namboodiripad, K. Kesavan Nair and P. Achuthan, resolved to register The Mathrubhumi Printing and Publishing Company Limited and the registration took place on 15 February 1922.
K. Madhavan Nair became the first managing director of the company. Madhavan Nair (1882-1933) was leading the freedom-struggle from Malabar and was a member of Madras Constituent Assembly.
The newspaper's founders were members of the Indian National Congress led by K. P. Kesava Menon (1886-1978); its shareholders included about 350 men and women of Kerala. Though Mathrubhumi lost money regularly in its early years, that did not matter, its historian noted in 1973, because its goals were not those of business but of social oppression and unrest. It battled gallantly with British authorities before independence and bitterly with Kerala's Communists from the late 1930s.Mathrubhumi's anti Western and anti American stand is still relevant at present day too.
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