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The Indian Express was founded in 1932 by P. Varadarajulu Naidu, an Ayurvedic doctor, in Chennai. It was printed through his Tamil Nadu press before financial difficulties led him to sell the paper to Swaminathan Sadanand.
Ramnath Goenka acquired the Indian Express through a court battle after buying a stake from Swaminathan Sadanand structured as convertible debentures. When The Free Press Journal collapsed in 1935, Goenka and Sadanand fought a protracted legal dispute, which Sadanand lost, transferring full ownership to Goenka.
The two papers are the result of a 1999 split of the Goenka family media group eight years after Ramnath Goenka's death in 1991. Viveck Goenka retained the northern editions under the Indian Express name, while Manoj Kumar Sonthalia took the southern editions, which were rebranded as The New Indian Express.
According to the Indian Readership Survey of 2017, The Indian Express had a readership of nearly 1.6 million, making it the sixth most-read English newspaper in India. Its largest daily circulations were in Mumbai at around 160,000 copies and Delhi at around 140,000 copies.
The Indian Express began publishing daily on the internet on the 8th of July 1996. Five months after launch, the website expressindia.com was attracting 700,000 hits every day on weekdays, dropping to about sixty percent of that figure on weekends.
The Indian Express has faced disputes over its reporting on multiple occasions. In May 2020, Delhi Police publicly challenged a report about a doctored WhatsApp audio clip and summoned the reporter for questioning. In 2022, Indian paramilitary forces disputed a story about the Republic Day parade, and in February 2025, politician Shashi Tharoor accused the paper of misrepresenting his words from a podcast.