Malayala Manorama (Malayalam: മലയാള മനോരമ) is a daily newspaper, in Malayalam language, published in the state of Kerala, India. It was first published as a weekly on 14 March 1890, and currently has a readership of over 16 million (with a circulation base of over 1.9 million copies)^{[citation needed]}. The Malayalam word "manorama" roughly translates to "entertainer".

The Week (India), an Indian weekly, is also brought out by the Manorama Group. Manorama Yearbook is another yearly publication by the Kottayam–Kozhikode-based Manorama Group. It has 32 publications all over India in five languages (English, Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil and Bengali).

A joint stock publishing company, destined to acquire the status of the first joint stock publishing company of Republic of India, was incorporated by in 1888 by Kandathil Varghese Mappillai at Kottayam, then a small town in the Kingdom of Travancore, currently, a part of Kerala state, India. The first issue of Malayala Manorama was published on March 22, 1890 from the press owned by Malankara Metropolitan Pulikkottil Joseph Mar Dionysious II of the Indian Orthodox Church. The name Malayala Manorama was chosen by the poet, Raghavan Nambiar, Villuvarvattathu from Tiruvalla. Kerala Varma granted the symbol which is a part of the Travancore kingdom symbol. In a period of two years, from the date of incorporation until the publication commenced, the company witnessed several challenges. Presently, it also publishes several other publications, including the English news magazine The Week (the-week.com), the women's mag Vanitha (in Malayalam and Hindi), an information oriented monthly called 'Tell Me Why', a comic digest Balarama and the men's lifestyle magazine The Man (www.theman.in). The group has also diversified into Entertainment and News Television (Mazhavil Manorama, Manorama News), Radio (Radio Mango), internet (manoramaonline.com)and programming (Manorama Vision).

Rima Kallingal (Malayalam: റിമ കല്ലിങ്കല്‍) (born 19 January 1984) is an Indian model and film actress, predominantly appearing in Malayalam cinema.

After being named First Runner Up in the Miss Kerala 2008 contest, she went to pursue a career in acting. She made her film debut in 2009 through the film Ritu, later appeared in Neelathaamara (2009) and continues to work in Malayalam and Tamil films.

Born in Thrissur, Kallingal began dancing when she was three years old. A dancer by profession, she has performed on national and international stages. She holds a bachelor's degree in journalism. She completed her schooling from Chinmaya Vidyalaya, Thrissur, passing out in 2001. She was a semi-finalist of the Asianet reality show Vodafone Thakadhimi. She moved to Bangalore to pursue a modelling career and later participated in the Miss Kerala beauty pageant, in which be she became the first runner-up, losing to Shree Thulasi in a tie-breaker. She was spotted by director Lal Jose on a magazine cover, who cast her for a goat herder role in a Tamil film Mazhai Varappoguthu. The project didn't materialize, but she was offered the lead female character of Varsha by director Shyamaprasad for Ritu, which eventually marked her acting debut.