Indian Express Limited is an Indian news media publishing company. It publishes several widely circulated dailies, including The Indian Express and The Financial Express in English, the Loksatta in Marathi and the Jansatta in Hindi. The company's newspapers are published from over a dozen cities daily, including New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Pune, Chandigarh, Lucknow, Jammu, Coimbatore and Chennai. Its weekly entertainment magazine Screen, covering Indian film industry, also has a popular following.^[1]

The company was founded by Ramnath Goenka in 1932 and is presently run by his adopted son, Viveck Goenka who holds the titles of Chairman and Managing Director.

In the second round of the 2008 Indian Readership Survey, the Media Research Users Council reported that The Indian Express ranks 7th in ranking of Indian English dailies by size of readership (with 1.8 million readers) and that Loksatta is the 5th most widely read Marathi daily (with 3.9 million readers).^[2]

The Group also sponsors the "Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism" awards in 15 categories for both print and broadcast journalism, which each carry a cash prize of INR 100,000. There are additional prizes of INR 250,000 for "Journalism of Courage" and "Journalist of the Year".^[3] The awards were instituted on 12 April 2006 by the Prime Minister of India, Dr. Manmohan Singh, at a formal event in a hotel in New Delhi.^[4]

On November 2, 2006, The Indian Express Group signed a deal with The Economist, which included allowing the Indian Express Group to publish surveys, some reports, and various other content published in The Economist Magazine.^[5]

Publications[link]

Currently, the following brands and concerns are owned by the Group:

• The Indian Express - a national daily (English)
• The Sunday Express - a news weekly
• The Financial Express - a business daily
• Loksatta - Marathi daily
• Lokprabha - Marathi weekly
• Jansatta - Hindi daily for North India
• Screen - entertainment journal
• Express Online - the portal for hosting IndianExpress.com, FinancialExpress.com, ScreenIndia.com, Loksatta.com and Lokprabha.com, ExpressCricket.in, and KashmirLive.com

Other ventures[link]

Business Publications Division[link]

Established in 1990, the division manages leading B2B publications and events catering to major industry verticals like Information Technology, Hospitality & Travel, Pharma & Healthcare, etc.^[6]

• Publications
  • Information Technology
    • Express Computer - Fortnightly magazine for IT enthusiasts and professionals.
  • Hospitality & Travel
    • Express Hospitality - Fortnightly that provides hospitality professionals a complete perspective of the business, covering the latest news, happenings, trends, reviews, special reports, industry events and expert opinions.
    • Express TravelWorld - Fortnightly for Travel enthusiasts.
  • Pharma & Healthcare
    • Express Pharma - A source of reportage, opinion and analysis aimed primarily at the pharmaceutical production and distribution channel -manufacturers, distributors, stockists, retailers and large institutional buyers. It focuses on pharmaceutical issues and trends from a business perspective.
    • Express Healthcare - It provides usable information via a combination of sectoral news, product information, sales and marketing strategies, market analysis and inside information.
• Events
  • Information Technology
    • Technology Senate
    • Technology Sabha
    • Technology Big 3
    • Technology Summit
  • Hospitality & Travel
    • HospitalityWorld
    • TravelWorld
  • Pharma & Healthcare
    • HealthcareWorld
• Awards
  • Information Technology
    • Express Intelligent Enterprise Awards
    • Express Security Strategist Awards
    • Express Uptime Champion Awards
  • Hospitality & Travel
    • Express TravelWorld Awards
  • Pharma & Healthcare
    • Express Pharma Excellence Awards
    • Express Healthcare Excellence Awards

Express Institute of Media Studies[link]

A media school from Indian Express Group.^[7]

Express Events[link]

• Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards
• Ramnath Goenka India Press Photo Awards
• Financial Express Best Bank Awards
• World Press Photo Award

The Express Group Book Series[link]

The Express Book Series was instituted in 2007 with the launch of India Empowered, a compilation of articles written under the India Empowered campaign that appeared in The Indian Express. Over the years 21 books have been released by renowned authors including P. Chidambaram, Tavleen Singh, N.K. Singh, Arun Shourie, Harsha Bhogle, Mani Shankar Aiyar and Jerry Rao. The Express Book Series has also released titles under the Express Group such as India Empowered, India’s Elected, Inside 26/11, 187 Lives, The Prize Stories and many more.

Express Avenue[link]

Express Avenue is a shopping mall in Chennai promoted by Express Infrastructure, a subsidiary of The Indian Express Group.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official site

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The Indian Express is an Indian English-language daily newspaper. It is published in Mumbai by Indian Express Group. After Ramnath Goenka's death in 1991, the group was split in 1999 among his family members into two with the southern editions taking the name The New Indian Express, while the old Indian Express name was retained in the northern editions based in Mumbai with a prefix "The".

The Indian Express is owned by the Indian Express Group with Viveck Goenka as the Chairman and Managing Director. The group also owns other newspapers in India such as the Financial Express, a newspaper focused on the Indian economy, stock markets, and fiscal policies, the Marathi-language daily Loksatta, and the Hindi daily Jansatta. The group also has other publications such as Screen, a weekly magazine focused on entertainment news.

The Indian Express is published from 9 locations — Delhi, Mumbai, Nagpur, Pune, Kolkata, Ludhiana, Chandigarh, Lucknow and Ahmedabad.

History of the group[link]

Indian Express was started by an Ayurvedic doctor, Perumal Varadarajulu Naidu, in 1931 at Chennai (then Madras), published by his “Tamil Nadu” press. But soon under financial difficulties he sold it to S. Sadanand, founder of The Free Press Journal, a national news agency.

In 1933 The Indian Express opened its second office in Madurai and launched the Tamil edition Dinamani. Sadanand introduced several innovations and reduced the price, but was later forced to sell part of the stake in form of convertible debentures to Ramanath Goenka due to financial difficulties. Later when The Free Press Journal collapsed in 1935 Sadanand lost the ownership of Indian Express after a long controversial court battle with Goenka, where blows were exchanged between some of the parties^{[citation needed]}.

Goenka’s court battle with Sadanand for ownership[link]

Suit No. C.S. no. 288 of 1936 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, AT MADRAS

PARTES: The Free Press of India (Madras) Ltd. Through its Directors 1. S. Sadanand 2. Mrs. Sagaram Sadanand 3. P. Vardarajulu Naidu. –Plaintiffs Vs. 1. Publicity (Madras) Ltd., represented by R. Goenka, Managing Director. 2. R. Goenka 3. K. Santanam 4. S.V.Swamy 5. T.S. Chockkalingam – Defendants.

Para - 3 (1933) The Free Press of India (Madras) Ltd., a private limited company incorporated and registered in February 1933. The Authorized Capital of the Company is Rs. 3 Lacks divided in 6000 shares of Rs. 50 each. Paid up Capital Rs. 136550. of 2731 fully paid up shares.

Para - 4 (1934) Objects of the Company: The Company was established mainly to acquire and carry on the newspaper known as ‘Indian Express’ previously thereto conducted by the Free Press of India Ltd. Bombay, and to start and conduct such other newspaper and Magazines or Journals as circumstances might dictate . Pursuant thereto the newly formed company purchased from the Free Press of India, the whole of the business, stock in trade, and assets of the Indian Express under Articles of Agreement dated 19 April 1934 for a consideration of Rs. 86,250/- for which fully paid up shares of a like value in the new company were later allotted.

Managing agents debenture issue[link]

First managing agent Messers Sadanand and Company with headquarters in Bombay, with Sadanand as the sole proprietor.

In or about end of 1934 the directors considered to associate a local individual in the managing agency and to raise by way of mortgage debentures a sum of Rs.50,000/- for meeting liabilities pertaining to the additional machinery and meeting certain overdue liabilities.

Accordingly another private limited company known as Publicity (Madras) Ltd. was formed with subscribed capital of Rs. 20000/- of which 51 percent was held by Ramanath Goenka and 49% by Mr. Sadanand. Ramnath Goenka should entirely fulfill the obligations devolving on the managing agents.

M/s. Sadanand & Co., should terminate the managing agency with the company Publicity (Madras) Ltd should be appointed Managing Agents & the new Managing Agents should underwrite the entire mortgage Debentures of Rs. 50,000 Rs. Fifty thousand within a specified date namely 15 January 1935.

Publicity (Madras) Ltd. were appointed managing agents from 08-01-1935. The first directors of the company were S. Sadanand, K. Santanam, and S.V. Swamy, & held office till 22.10.34. At the first Annual General Body Meeting for the year they were reelected & the three directors voluntarily retired and on 23.11.1935 S. Sadanand, Mrs. Sagaram Sadanand, and S. Bhushan were elected as directors and on 19.5.1936 they co-opted Messers. Ramnath Goenka, K. Santanam, T.S. Chokalingam and S.V. Swamy as Directors till the next general meeting.

Rs. 50,000/- was received & on the recommendation of Ramnath Goenka in current account at 6% with Messers. Chunilal Murliprasad bankers on or about 25.1.35.

Co-opted Ramnath Goenka director on 19 May 1936[link]

The first directors of the company were S. Sadanand, K. Santanan and S.V. Swamy and they held office till 22-10-1934 when at the first AGM they were again re-elected as director for the year 1934-35. At the end of the year, the three directors voluntarily retired and on 23-11-1935 S. Sadanand, Mrs. Sagaram Sadanand, and S.N. Bushan were elected directors. S.N. Bushan never took office and resigned on about 4 February 1936. When recording Mr. Bushan’s resignation not to fill the vacancy till the third annual general meeting. And under clause 11 co-opted on 19-05-1936 till the next general meeting, Ramnath Goenka, K. Santanan, T.S. Chokkalingam.

Ramnath Goenka entry & battle in the scene[link]

Ramnath Goenka started creating trouble and to oust S. Sadanand from his accredited position of importance and influence in the company and to make himself supreme in its administration.

The battle started with the next Annual General Meeting which was convened on 22 August 1936 and adjourned from time to time & finally held on 20 September 1936. After start of the meeting & with some arguments, a party consisting of Ramnath Goenka, K. Bhashyam, K. Santanam, T.S. Chokalingam, and S.V. Swamy left their seats, took their chairs to another corner of the room and also took away some papers produced and filed at the meeting on the 19th and the 20th.

Altercations & blows[link]

The suit filed in Madras High Court by S. Sadanand on 30 October C. S. No. 288 of 1936 leveling charges of various fraud committed by Ramnath Goenka and also that Ramnath Goenka at one time saying that he was a partner of Chunilal Murliprasad at another he was an agent and at other times he was totally unconnected and Ramnath Goenka also concealed from till very late stage that the office of Chunilal Murliprasad was situated at his residence.

There have been lot of altercations & blows and finally Final orders of the court passed on Monday the 3rd day of May 1937, the honorable Mr. Justice Gentle in the high court of Madras.

This suit coming on this day before this court for withdrawal in the presence of Mr. R. Rangachariar, Advocate for the Plaintiffs herein, of Mr. K. Venugopala Iyengar, Advocate for Defendants 1 herein, and of Mr. R. Soundara rajan, Advocate for Defendants 2 to 5 herein, and the said Advocates for the parties hereto represent to this court that the suit has been settled out of court, it is ordered as follows:-

1.That this suit do stand dismissed out of this court as settled.

C.S.No. 288 of 1936 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE,AT MADRAS

Finally a year later Goenka to buy the rest of the 26% stake from Sadanand, and the paper came under Goenka's control who took the already anti-establishment tone of the paper to greater heights.^{[citation needed]} Also at that time it had to face stiff competition from a well established The Hindu and the Mail besides other prominent newspapers. In late 1930s the circulation was no more than 2000^{[citation needed]}.

In 1939 it also bought out Andhra Prabha, another prominent Telugu Daily. Later the gained the name Three Musketeers for the three dailies^{[citation needed]}. In 1940 the whole premises were gutted by fire. The Hindu, its rival, helped considerably in re-launching the paper, by getting it printed temporarily at one of its Swadesimithran’s press and later offering its recently vacated premises at 2, Mount Road later to become the landmark Express Estates^{[citation needed]}. This relocation also helped the Express obtain better high speed printing machines, while some claimed the Goenka had deliberately set fire to escape financial embarrassment^{[citation needed]}.

In later years Goenka started the Mumbai edition with the landmark Express Towers as his office when the Morning Standard was bought by him in 1944. Two years later to become it became the Mumbai edition of The Indian Express. Later on editions were started in several cities like 1957 the Madurai edition, the 1965 Bangalore edition, and the 1968 Ahmedabad edition. The Financial Express was launched in 1961 from Mumbai, Kannada Prabha (Kannada Daily) from Bangalore in 1965 and a Bangalore edition of the Telugu Daily Andhra Prabha, and Gujarati dailies Lok Satta and Jansatta in 1952, from Ahmedabad and Baroda.

The Delhi edition started was when the Tej group's Indian News Chronicle was acquired in 1951, which from 1953 became the Delhi edition of Indian Express. In 1990 the group bought the Sterling group of magazines, and along with it the Gentleman magazine.

After Ramanath Goenka’s demise in 1991, two of the family members split the group into Indian Express Mumbai with all the North Indian editions, while the Southern editions were grouped as Express Madurai Ltd. with Chennai as headquarters.

Headquarters[link]

The Express Group has a Mumbai-headquartered division, which should not be confused with Express Publications Madurai, which brings out a South Indian chain of newspapers, including The New Indian Express and is very much a separate corporate entity from The Express Group.

Financial difficulties and turnaround[link]

The newspaper saw falling profits between the years 2000-2002 but did not change its policies and the nature of content it carried. The newspaper, however, appointed franchisees to run some of its loss making editions including the Jammu edition (the model was also adopted to launch the Chandigarh edition of The Financial Express - the business paper of the Express Group). Under the franchisee model, the editorial control of the edition was to be retained by the editorial staff appointed by the Express group. The franchise owner was given the control of with the business side, including circulation and generation of revenues. In return the franchise was expected to provide the operational expenses and a one-time fee to the Express group. The model looked good on paper. However, it led to dilution of the editorial standards as the franchisees sought greater say in the appointment of reporters and selection of content. The conflict between commercial interests and journalistic ethics reached a flashpoint in The Financial Express, Chandigarh edition, when the franchisee threatened to shut down the edition if he was not given the editorial control. The franchisee ultimately emerged as the winner,leading to the resignation of the Resident Editor of the edition. This was followed by fresh appointments to the Editorial team and the franchisee assuming the role of the Managing Editor.The Express Group, subsequently posted profits of Rs 45 crores in 2004. This financial turnaround has been used as a case study in India's highly regarded Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad.

Awards[link]

• Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards
• Ramnath Goenka India Press Photo Awards
• Screen Awards
• FE Women in Business Awards
• Intelligent Enterprise Awards
• Security Strategist Awards
• Uptime Champion Awards
• Express TravelWorld Awards
• Pharma Excellence Awards
• Healthcare Excellence Awards

Business Publications Division[link]

The group also runs the Business Publication Division ("BPD"). This division publishes and prints out of its headquarters at Nariman Point in Mumbai a series of B2B magazines such as Express Computer, Express TravelWorld (formerly called Travel and Tourism), Express Pharma (formerly Express Pharma Pulse), Express Hospitality (formerly Express Hotelier & Caterer), the IT-focused Network Magazine, CIO Decisions, Express Healthcare Management and the newly launched business magazine Express Channel Business.

BPD has also ventured into organising events and exhibitions such as Express World. BPD also conducts events on IT and organises exhibitions for other parties. In September 2006, BPD's Express TravelWorld organised the exhibition for Travel Agents Association of India 55th annual convention in Hyderabad.

The Screen Awards, initiated by Ananya Goenka, are focused on films in India. The awards attempt to position themselves as India's first awards that are given by the film fraternity to the film fraternity by way of a jury, as opposed to the other "popular" awards such as Filmfare and Zee Cine Awards.

BPD brings out several special features throughout the year. Noted among them are few from the Hyderabad division headed by Biju Mathews (GM-BPD), which include the following:

• Centennial Titans
• Platinum League
• Golden League
• Silver League
• [Best of Andhra Pradesh]
• Andhra Pradesh - Celebrations
• Best Schools of Hyderabad
• Gourmet guide - Hyderabad
• Heritage Capital - Hyderabad
• [Best of India]

See also[link]

	Mumbai portal
	Journalism portal

• Indian Express Group
• Express Avenue
• List of newspapers in India by circulation
• List of newspapers in the world by circulation
• The New Indian Express

References[link]

External links[link]

• The Indian Express website

Shekhar Gupta
Born	(1957-08-26) August 26, 1957 (age 54)
Occupation	Journalist

Shekhar Gupta (born 26 August 1957) is the editor-in-chief of The Indian Express.^[1]. Shekhar has a weekly column called National Interest. It covers a range of issues and is the subject of his forthcoming book. He also hosts an interview-based programme Walk the Talk on NDTV 24x7. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan for the year 2009 for his contribution to the field of journalism.^[2]

Awards[link]

Shekhar has received assorted awards: the 1985 Inlaks award for young journalist of the year^[3], G K Reddy Award for Journalism^[4], the Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed Memorial Award for National Integration.^[5][6] He was awarded Padma Bhushan by the Govt of India in 2009.^[2][7]

Under his leadership, The Indian Express has won the Vienna-based International Press Institute’s Award for Outstanding Journalism in the Public Interest thrice- the first time for its coverage of the Gujarat riots of 2002, the second time for uncovering the Bihar flood relief scam in 2005 and the third time for its sustained investigation into the Malegaon and Modasa blasts of 2008 and the alleged role of Hindu extremists and organisations.^[8]

Bibliography[link]

• Assam: A Valley Divided
• India Redefines Its Role - IISS Adelphi Paper Series 293^[9]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Indian Express Column
• Profile on the Indian Express website
• Walk the Talk
• Walk the Talk Videos on NDTV

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Satish Jha with the OLPC XO-1 laptop

Satish Jha is an Indian social entrepreneur, who is currently the President and CEO of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) India.^[1][2][3][4]

References[link]

1. ^ "You can’t wait for piped water before you give them computers". Mint (newspaper). Nov 25 2008. http://www.livemint.com/2008/11/25005933/You-can8217t-wait-for-piped.html. 
2. ^ "Govt to rent out PCs in rural areas @ 15 a day". The Times of India. Sep 10, 2010. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/personal-tech/computing/Govt-to-rent-out-PCs-in-rural-areas-15-a-day-/articleshow/6530319.cms. 
3. ^ "One Laptop expands in Asia". Boston Globe. August 6, 2008. http://www.boston.com/business/ticker/2008/08/one_laptop_expa.html. 
4. ^ "Technology blog + One Laptop Per Child". The Guardian. Tuesday 28 April 2009. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog+olpc. 

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Mohan Bhagwat
Born	1950 Chandrapur, India
Religion	Hinduism

Mohan Madhukar Bhagawat (born 1950) is the current Sarsanghachalak (Supreme Chief) of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. He was chosen as the successor of K. S. Sudarshan in March 2009 .^[1]

Early life[link]

Mohanrao Madhukarrao Bhagwat was born in a small town called Chandrapur in Maharashtra. He comes from a family of RSS activists.^[1] His father Madhukar Bhagwat, was the Karyavaha (secretary) of the Chandrapur zone and had also, worked as Prant Pracharak of Gujarat.^[1] It was Madhukarji, who introduced the senior BJP leader Lal Krishna Advani into the RSS fold. Mohanrao is the eldest son of his parents and has three brothers and a sister.

He completed his schooling from Lokmanya Tilak Vidyalaya and then his first year BSc from Janata College, both in Chandrapur. He graduated in Veterinary sciences and Animal husbandry from Punjabrao Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola. He dropped out of his masters course in veterinary sciences and became a Pracharak (full time worker) of the RSS towards the end of 1975 when the country was under Emergency imposed by the then prime minister Indira Gandhi.^[1]

Association with RSS[link]

After working underground during the Emergency, Bhagwat became pracharak of Akola in Maharashtra in 1977 and rose within the organisation to become pracharak of Nagpur and Vidarbha regions.^[1]

He became Akhil Bharatiya Sharirik pramukh, in-charge of physical training for RSS cadres across the country in 1991 and held the post till 1999. That year he was made Akhil Bharatiya Pracharak pramukh, in-charge of RSS volunteers working full time all over country.

In 2000, when Rajendra Singh(RSS) and H. V. Sheshadri decided to step down as RSS chief and general secretary respectively due to poor health, KS Sudarshan was nominated as the new chief and Mohan Bhagwat rose to the post of Sarkaryavaha (General Secretary).

Mohan Bhagwat was elevated as the Sarsanghchalak of the RSS on 21 March 2009. He is one of the youngest leaders to head the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and is seen to be straight forward, humble, pragmatic and with a clear vision to keep the RSS away from politics.^[1]

Views[link]

Mohan Bhagwat is seen as a pragmatic leader and has talked of taking the Hindutva agenda forward with a touch of modernity.^[2] He has stressed on moving on along with the changing times, while keeping the organisation's foundation firm in the rich and old Indian values.^[3] He says that unlike the popular belief that RSS sticks to old beliefs and customs, it has accepted modernisation and has evolved with it to show the right path to the people of the country'.^[3]

On the question of caste disparities in the Hindu society, Bhagwat has said that there should be no scope for untouchability. He has said that the Hindu society, which is founded on the principle of unity in diversity, should address its inherent deficiency of discriminating against its own ilk and that the people of the community should strive to remove such discriminatory attitudes prevalent in society, and a beginning should be made from the homes of every Hindu.^[4]

External links[link]

• Official Website of RSS
• At the Bayarea Hindu Sangam 2006
• at the Hindu Sangam
• Rashtra Raksha Sanchalan
• At Book Release Function of "Jyotipunj"

References[link]

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f} Mohan Bhagwat: A vet and RSS pracharak for over 30 years, 21 March 2009, Times of India, [1]
2. ^ RSS names Mohan Bhagwat its new chief: ‘pragmatist’ & friend of Advani, Sunday , March 22, 2009, Indian Express
3. ^ ^{a b} RSS evolves with changing times: Bhagwat, Sunday, November 20, 2005, Press Trust of India, Indian Express
4. ^ Root out discrimination in society, Monday, January 29, 2007, The Hindu [2]

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