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| Type | Dailynewspaper |
|---|---|
| Owner(s) | Kerala State Committee of theCommunist Party of India (Marxist) |
| Editor-in-chief | Puthalath Dinesan |
| General manager | K. J. Thomas |
| Founded | 1942 |
| Political alignment | Left |
| Language | Malayalam |
| Headquarters | Trivandrum,Kerala |
| Circulation | 622,276[1] (as of 2022) |
| Website | www |
| Free online archives | www |
Deshabhimani is aMalayalamnewspaper and the organ of the Kerala State Committee of theCPI(M). It started as a weekly inKozhikode on 6 September 1942 and converted to a daily in 1946.[4] The paper now has ten different printing centres:Kozhikode,Kochi,Thiruvananthapuram,Kannur,Kottayam,Thrissur,Palakkad,Alappuzha,Kollam andMalappuram. At present, Puthalath Dinesan State Secretariat Member of the CPI(M) is the Chief Editor of the paper, K.J. Thomas, CPI(M), secretariat member of the CPI(M), the General Manager and V. B Parameshwaran, the Resident Editor.
Deshabhimani is thethird-largest Malayalam language newspaper by circulation.[1] As ofIndian Readership Survey of 2019, it was also in thethird position in terms of readership in Kerala, afterMalayala Manorama andMathrubhumi.[5]
The news website is published under a public open licenseCC-BY 4.0.[6]
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Deshabhimani has a predecessor,Prabhatham (which means 'Dawn'). It was started in 1935 and was the manifesto of the socialist group in theIndian National Congress. It was in 1942, through the efforts of eminent leaders likeA. K. Gopalan andE. M. S. Namboodiripad (who in fact donated all of his ancestral property for raising funds for the paper) Deshabhimani started and became the voice of theCPI and later became the voice ofCPI(M), afterthe split from CPI in 1964. Various personalities likeE. M. S. Namboodiripad,V. T. Induchoodan,K. P. R. Gopalan,E. K. Nayanar andV. S. Achuthanandan, have served as the chief editor ofDeshabhimani.Many notable journalists of South India work withDeshabhimani. Journalists who have worked withDeshabhimani include P Govinda Pillai,Ezhacherry Ramachandran,Prabha Varma, K. Mohanan, C.M. Abdul Rehman, Narikutti Mohanan, P.M. Manoj and B. Aburaj.