The Indian Express was started in 1932 by Varadarajulu Naidu, an Ayurvedic Doctor and Congress Party member in Chennai (earlier Madras). However, very soon, owing to financial difficulties, Varadarajulu Naidu sold it to S. Sadanand, founder of the Free Press Journal, an India news agency. In 1933, the second office was opened in Madurai and shortly the Tamil edition 'Dinamani' was launched. S. Sadanand introduced many innovations, but it was not long before he, too, faced financial difficulties and had sold part of the stake to Ramanath Goenka. In 1935 the free press journal collapsed and S. Sadanand lost the ownership of Indian Express after a stretched court battle with Ramanath Goenka. At that time The Indian Express was facing tough competition from the The Hindu, The Mail and other prominent newspapers of the country. According to sources, in late 1930s the circulation of the newspaper was around 2,000.
In 1939, Ramanath Goenka bought another prominent Telugu Daily, 'Andhra Prabha'. In 1940, the whole Indian Express premises were destroyed in fire. It was then that The Hindu helped in re-launching the paper. Later Ramanath Goenka launched the Mumbai edition and also took over Morning Standard in 1944. Further, a number of editions were started in cities like the Madurai Edition (1957), Bangalore Edition (1965) and Ahmedabad Edition (1968). The Financial Express was started in 1961 from Mumbai and Kannada Prabha (Kannada Daily) was launched in 1965 from Bangalore. Meanwhile, Bangalore edition of Andhra Prabha (Telugu Daily) and Gujarati dailies Lok Satta and Jansatta were started in the year 1952, from Ahmedabad and Baroda.
In 1951 the Indian Express group acquired the Indian News Chronicle of Tej Group and the Delhi edition was started. In 1991 after Ramanath Goenka's death, two of the family members split the group into Indian Express Mumbai comprised all North Indian editions and Express Madurai Ltd with Chennai as headquarters comprised all Southern editions Get it now APPLY.
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