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The Indian Express founded in Madras

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P. Varadarajulu Naidu started the English daily The Indian Express in Madras; it was later taken over by Ramnath Goenka.

The Indian Express was started in Madras in 1932 by P. Varadarajulu Naidu, an Ayurvedic doctor and nationalist, and printed at his Tamil Nadu press. It soon ran into financial difficulties and was sold to Swaminathan Sadanand of The Free Press Journal. It was later taken over by Ramnath Goenka. The paper grew into a national newspaper group.

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