Mathrubhumi to organise a closing ceremony for its year-long centenary celebrations

The closing ceremony of Mathrubhumi's centenary celebrations will be conducted on March 18.

The ceremony will be held at the CIAL Convention Centre in Kochi.

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan will inaugurate the valedictory functions at 10.30 am on March 18. Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting, Anurag Singh Thakur will unveil the souvenir at the event.

Ministers K Rajan and P Rajeev, Opposition leader VD Satheesan, writer C Radhakrishnan, MPs Benny Behanan, Jose K Mani, Jeby Mather, and Anwar Sadat MLA will offer felicitations.

MV Shreyams Kumar, Managing Director, Mathrubhumi, will preside over the event. The year-long centenary celebrations were kick-started by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on March 18, 2022.

Mathrubhumi was born in 1923 as part of the Freedom Struggle, which was spearheaded by Mahatma Gandhi. A team comprising of KP Kesava Menon, K Madhavan Nair, and Kuroor Neelakandan Namboothiripad, founded Mathrubhumi under the guidance of Gandhiji.

The daily said it has been led by the motto 'freedom, equality and liberty’ from the very beginning. The newspaper scaled new heights under the leadership of the late MP Veerendrakumar, the former Managing Director.

Presently, Mathrubhumi Daily is printed from 14 locations in India (Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Alappuzha, Kottayam, Kochi, Thrissur, Palakkad, Malappuram, Kozhikode, Kannur, Chennai, Bengaluru, Mumbai and New Delhi). Its first overseas edition started printing from Dubai in March 2013.

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