Sakal

Sakal
सकाळ

"Rise of the future newspaper" (उदय भविष्यपत्राचा)
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner(s)	Sakal Media Group
Publisher	Sakal Media Group
Editor-in-chief	Shriram Pawar
Founded	1 January 1932
Language	Marathi
Headquarters	595, Budhwar Peth, Pune, Maharashtra, India
Circulation	1,337,901 Daily (as of Jul - Dec 2015)
Sister newspapers	Sakal Times Agrowon
Website	http://www.esakal.com

Sakal (Marathi: सकाळ, meaning "Morning") is a Marathi-language daily newspaper by Sakal Media Group with its headquarters in Pune, Maharashtra, India. Sakal is the flagship newspaper of the foundation publication, Sakal Media Group. It ranks among the top 10 language dailies of India. It is Alexa's top ranked web-site in Marathi category. Dr. N. P. a.k.a. Nanasaheb Parulekar was the founder of Sakal. It is published in the cities of Pune, Mumbai, Kolhapur, Sangli, Nashik, Aurangabad, Nanded, Solapur, Nagpur, Satara, Amravati and Jalgaon. The group’s other operations consist of regional newspapers, magazines and Internet publishing, together employing over 3000 people. It holds one of the largest Marathi websites, eSakal, which reaches to 300,000 Internet users across the globe

Sakal was a classic newspaper of the pre-independence nationalist period. Its idealistic founder, Dr. N.P. alias Nanasaheb Parulekar had been influenced by American newspapers during his years at Columbia University. By introducing Sakal (morning) to advance Mahatma Gandhi’s movement for independence, he also showed the path to genuine daily journalism in Marathi. Though it was started as a part of the nationalist cause, after Indian independence, Sakal newspaper established itself as a successful business by reporting on day-to-day concerns, not just of Pune but also of its rural neighborhoods. By the 1960s, Sakal appointed full-time correspondents, each with a telephone, in every town in its neighborhood. It ran training camps for its journalists, promotions and cultural events for its readers and letters to the editor on its front page. Under Nanasaheb Parulekar, the paper maintained strict political neutrality and endorsed candidates for local, state or National elections purely on the basis of their merit.