Today, The Hindu launches its Kozhikode edition, with its own printing facility near Malabar's foremost city. This, our 17th printing centre and the third in Kerala, will facilitate smoother and more efficient distribution in the region, and the supply of copies printed to a later news deadline than now in Kozhikode City and its surrounding areas.
Determined to build further on its position as the largest-selling English language newspaper in the State, The Hindu is further stepping up coverage of the region, with more focus on local developments and concerns. This enhanced regional focus will be achieved without compromising on our cherished national perspective.
On this occasion, let me convey best wishes to our readers, old and new, in the region. We greatly value the trust and faith you repose in India's national newspaper, a newspaper which doesn't trivialise news and opinion, and doesn't serve up news that somebody else has paid for.
Have a great reading experience!
Siddharth Varadarajan
Editor, The Hindu
Keywords: Kozhikode edition, The Hindu
Malabar doesnt meant that only Calicut. It is from kasargod tulunadu to half of trissur and palakad. please ensure coverage to be provided these areas also.
Hearty congratulations and all the very best to The Hindu.
Best wishes to Hindu group for extending its foot print. In today's context of journalism and perceptive about that profession in the eyes of common public but Hindu retains its uncompromise in news selection and presenting strategies irrespective condition and situation.
Please start the Hindu in Pune
@RA, As for making available the HINDU on the same day in gulf , it may be mentioned that there are daily flights to Sharjah and other cities in Gulf in the early morning hours from Calicut . So, I suggest that The Hindu prepares a special gulf edition by midnight every day and after printing at Calicut , load the copies on gulf flights . Some early morning flights from Calicut go via Bangalore or Bombay to Gulf . So, you can print special editions for Poona / Mumbai also from Calicut or Bangalore presses and deliver the copies on the same day in the early morning hours in Bombay / Pune where the readers wait for a day to get their copies at home .
Its really heartening to know this. wish the best news paper in the country all the best..
Congratulations and best wishes to 'The Hindu' on launching the Kozhikode edition.
When i was studying Madappalli govt.college and after that in Vadakara parallal college i used to sit in Vadakara public library only to read The Hindu, when i was completed degree and siting in the house its feel like something missed,i used to travel 10km from my house to vadakara only to read The Hindu, missing to read one day is like missing some thing your favourite one, now i am in the middle east we are getting the paper one day later, so i requesting to the Hindu management for try to provide the newspaper same day in the GCC....and also wishing all the success to its Malabar edition ...God bless you
It is good to spread your wings far and wide. Make it a point to become a Pan India newspaper than a big publishing house from the south. The new Editorial team should be flexible and willing to change its thinking on subjects like freedom of press/writing/expression, when the subject article tends to infringe on the religious sentiments or insensitive to the community at largela MF Hussain or Salman rushdie. If it is not in tune with mindset of the people at large, the paper should have the courage to denounce the author forthright and not stand on false prestige as to not to deviate from its rigid stand. It's stand on hanging is laudable but not it's take on freedom of expression/press etc.
Launching Hindu's edition from Kozhikode is exhilarating & I feel fumble for words to express my joy.I become emotional, for it has taken me to my memory lane when I first started reading Hindu at the age of 12.It was at a time when Hindu was considered as a status symbol for elites. My father insisted that during summer vacation I should not only read but also copy the 'editorial' as a daily regimen ! This exercise was to improve my vacabulary & for a good handwriting (Both proved correct in my later years) Later I had the fortune of living with an uncle who was enjoying his retired life & was a product from the renowned Madras Presidency college.He believed he could forego a breakfast but not the 'Hindu' He was monitoring my reading every day & I was given a Chambers dictionary, the practice imbibed me the art of 'know your English' (Incidentally CPChandrads has made a mention of the personality in his response)Let me also recall Kushwanth Singh's recent letter of praise of Hindu.
Congratulations for the new edition from Kozhikode. I used to read The Hindu from 40s when we used to get Madras edition by noon. For sometimes it was airlifted.I am sure the edition will be received by malabaris in its right spirit. With best wishes.
"A newspaper which doesn't trivialise news and opinion, and doesn't serve up news that somebody else has paid for" - Wishing you all the best to keep up your position as India's national newspaper.
Delighted to know of your decision to launch a print edition from Calicut. I remember the days when it was necessary to walk miles to fetch The Hindu from the local news agent in Payyoli town. My best wishes.
I am really glad to note that The Hindu had come up with another edition
near to my home town in Malabar.I hope this would result in better and
timely availability of the newspaper in the region.Also it would help in
concentrating more on regional issues and developments.
My hearty congratulations and best wishes to "The Hindu"
Ihave been a reader of HINDU for the last three decades.Now Iam extremely happy to hear that you are so near to me
I am so very happy to know that "The Hindu" is getting a Kozhikode Edition - My Home Town. I am an ardent reader of "The Hindu". Three generations of our family used to read 1"The Hindu" on a daily basis and it was advised by our forefathers to read The Hindu for getting unbiased news and views. Have a triumphant journey ahead.
I welcome The Hindu Malabar edition.I have been living in Kamballur ;(cherupuzha); KASARAGOD DISTRICT ; I have been reading the newspaper for many years but the print edition is not available at stands in Cherupuzha .Moreover it is not easily available in schools here.some thing must be done this year itself.-CKR
It is a good news that the Hindu has launched its own printing
facility in Malabar and it will step up its coverage of the region and
focus on local issues. I have been a reader of the paper for two
decades and got addicted to it. thnku
It is glad to hear that the "Hindu" daily is going to publish its edition in the 'Kozhikode' city of the Malabar region. Let us assume that the newspaper will be fully fledged with the national and international news including the Malabar area and the other various parts of Kerala. At this juncture, I would like to appreciate the "Hindu Newspaper Management" for the selection of Kozhikode city as their third location in the Kerala State, as this city has an important role since the previous history (i.e. especially from the Vascoda Gama era till to-date). Best Felicitations.
Congrats! Let hope that you will be able to expose our youth to something better in Art and
Film criticism than what they read elsewhere and to make an improvement on current
tastes.KMP
Congratulations, THE HINDU! I hope this should also contribute to the ease interstate
relations.
Great!
Hope to see you open many more branches in all the parts of India.
It is good that THE HINDU is coming out with a Kozhikode edition . The Malabar region not unlike other parts of Kerala and India has seen a social deterioration over the past decade . Thanks mainly to the political culture , an ignorant or callous public and more importantly a media that has not lived upto its responsibilities at all . >Hope THE HINDU ‘s this edition will change all that .In Kerala tday, most noticebale are the already disappeared rice fields and now a disappearing coconut /farm/agricultural production . And instead you see garbage accumulation everywhere ; burgeoning medical shops ;ever-filled hospitals and a politics of murder that has flourished in Malabar region , like nowehere else . Principles of cleanliness, truthfulness, austerity, simple living, common good etc has sadly gone missing today in the society here like elsewhere in the country too . It is true ,"we become all that we read & watch ". Through persistent,vacuous ,unsophisticated gossip and unethical propoganda flooding our intellects through TV programmes and vested media interests ,Malabar society has also by natural progression, declined into an intellectual abyss, bereft of questioning and thought-provoking ability. The educated middle class has become callous or is also lost in a race to wealth accumulation instead of focussing on right living . Instead of eulogising most unworthy politicians & filing airtime and pages with persistent, vacuous and unsophisticated gossip , we need you to devote space or time daily to ‘ questioning & thought provoking’ programmes, good for the Malabar society, such as: ‘common-good & role of society in our growth & prosperity’ ;“ responsibility and nationalism”; “character development and nation building “; well-being instead of well-off. Can THE HINDU bring about this change or atleast bring about the awareness that Society must come together now to save this region , this state and the upcoming generation ?Hopefully yes.
It is a good news that the Hindu has launched its own printing
facility in Malabar and it will step up its coverage of the region and
focus on local issues. I have been a reader of the paper for two
decades and got addicted to it.
Wishing ''The Hindu'' the very Best.Hope it will stand for the Values and Ideals as always.
We will get THE HINDU everyday on time without fail, I am waiting for this day for the last 12 Years when we shifted to Thallassery from Chennai.
Yet another achievement from The Hindu, indeed.
Good Work Hindu... All the Best...
It is a good thing that the hindu is going to print in malabar. But the actual problem that we face is that the hindu is not delivered in our home. Regular reading is disrupted because of this inaccessibility. Usually we buy the paper at the news stands. Only a few agents are available to deliver the paper at home. If the paper is taking in to account this inconvenience, it will be worth rewarding.
Justice delayed, but finally delivered! Malabar has been waiting to welcome "THE HINDU" all these years. Secular tradition of Malabar would embrace "THE HINDU" with all possible sincerity. Many thanks & wishing all the success for this new step.
yes its our pleasure, i am a bangaloreian native of kasargod, i read hindu there and here. the point i like in this is what you said as commercialisation of news, you keep going like this, end of the day you will be the one to raise the cup. All the very best wishes. thanking you - nikhil
congrulation! When we will get The hindu copy printed in jaipur.
Congratulations ! The Hindu is the most level-headed and
unbiassed newspaper in this country. It also does not make use of
pornography to increase it's sales like certain characterless
newspapers.
Hello,
Congratulations !. A long felt need fulfilled. Welcome to Malabar. I
am a friend of 'The Hindu' from my school days in Wadakanchery,
Trichur dist. We used to wait for the paper delivered by Madras/Kochin express (arr.0800 hrs) and at least it used to be read by 5 people in the neighbhourhood. I am 71 settled in Bangalore, continue to enjoy reading The Hindu. I am afraid I don't know whether I am right in my observation that after departure of N.Ram you have become a little
'aggressive' in marketing !!, as I can see from the advertisements
that has started appearing since past 3 or 4 days. Good to see the
change. With best wishes.
I am glad "The Hindu", to which I am addicted so to say, is to be published from the city of my birth and I am proud "The Hindu" had published several of my articles. I have been in the US since 2006 for researching a book I am working on but I read "The Hindu" (on-line) everyday without fail. "New York Times" is said to be the best daily in the US but in my opinion, "The Hindu" is far superior to "New York Times", which plays second fiddle to "the 1%", downplaying the OWS of "99%". Needless to say, "The Hindu" is the best English daily in India and if it continues to be objective as it is today in its reporting and editorial policy, I am sure, it will sooner rather than later, become the foremost English daily in India. Incidentally, that it has collaborated with WikiLeaks and has not been apologetic about it unlike "New York Times" which developed cold feet and tried to distance itself from the whistle blower, has enhanced its prestige. I wish the paper all the best.
My best wishes! Please think about some eastern part of India too.
I am really happy to now, that you are starting the kozhikode edition. At this moment, my memory goes back. I am from Ramanattukara, a village 17kms away from kozhikode. My father after retirement , was in his village at Ramanattkara since 1929. He was a regular reader of Hindu and as there was no agent for Hindu then, he was getting the newspaper
From Madras by post! When I started studying at Calicut , I contacted your Calicut agent Sri Ramaswamy, whether he can make arrangements to supply the paper at Ramanattkara to enable my father to read the days paper on the same day, he expressed his helplessness, as there was no request for an agency in my village. That was in 1942 or 43. Much water has flown through the Bharatha puzha. Now you are going to release the Kozhikode edn. I wish you all success.
I have been a regular reader of hindu all these years. At 82, I am now reading HINDU,From Memphis, America.
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