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''The New Indian Express'' is an Indian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper published by the Express Publications and based in Chennai. It was founded in 1932 as the ''Indian Express'', under the ownership of Chennai-based P. Varadarajulu Naidu. In 1991, following the death of the owner Ramnath Goenka, the Goenka family split the group into two companies. Initially, the two groups shared the ''Indian Express'' title, and editorial and other resources. But on 13 August 1999, the northern editions, headquartered in Mumbai, retained and renamed ''Indian Express'' as ''The Indian Express'', while the southern editions became ''The New Indian Express''. Today, the newspapers and companies are separate entities. The newspaper is known for its intrepid and anti-establishment tone. Express Publications (Madurai) Limited publishes the ''The New Indian Express'' from 22 centres in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Odisha. ==History== ''Indian Express'' was first published on September 5, 1932 in Madras (now Chennai) by an Ayurvedic doctor and Indian National Congress member P Varadarajulu Naidu, publishing from the same press where he ran the ''Tamil Nadu'' Tamil weekly. But soon, on account of financial difficulties, he sold it to S. Sadanand, founder of ''The Free Press Journal'', another English newspaper. In 1933, ''The Indian Express'' opened its second office in Madurai and launched the Tamil daily ''Dinamani'' on September 11, 1934. Sadanand introduced several innovations and reduced the price, but later sold part of his stake in the form of convertible debentures to Ramnath Goenka due to financial difficulties. When ''The Free Press Journal'' further went into financial decline in 1935, Sadanand lost ownership of ''Indian Express'' after a long controversial court battle with Goenka, where blows were exchanged. Finally, a year later, Goenka bought the rest of the 26 per cent stake from Sadanand, and the paper came under his control, who took the already anti-establishment tone of the paper to greater heights. At that time it had to face stiff competition from the well-established ''The Hindu'' and the ''Mail'', besides other prominent newspapers. In the late 1930s, the circulation was no more than 2,000. In 1939 Goenka bought out ''Andhra Prabha'', a prominent Telugu daily. It gained the name Three Musketeers for the three dailies. 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 in Madras at 2, Mount Road later to become the landmark Express Estates. This relocation helped the ''Express'' obtain better high-speed printing machines, while some claimed the Goenka had deliberately set fire to escape financial embarrassment. 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 it became the Mumbai edition of ''The Indian Express''. Later on, editions were started in cities like Madurai (1957), Bangalore (1965) and Ahmedabad (1968). The ''Financial Express'' was launched in 1961 from Mumbai, a Bangalore edition of ''Andhra Prabha'' was launched in 1965, 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 it bought the Sterling group of magazines and, along with it, the ''Gentleman'' magazine. After 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 Publications (Madurai) Limited with Chennai as headquarters. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The New Indian Express」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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