AVM Unni Archives reprints and cites material from a range of Malayalam newspapers, weekly magazines, cinema periodicals and diaspora publications spanning more than a century of Kerala media history. Every article on the site identifies its original source publication, the byline (where known) and the date of original publication.
The list below describes the publications that appear most frequently across our reprints. It is maintained editorially and updated as new material is added. If you are a publisher and would like additional information about your title included, or have corrections to suggest, please contact us.
Daily newspaper · Founded 1888
One of the oldest and most widely circulated Malayalam-language daily newspapers, published from Kottayam. The archive draws on its historical news pages, photo features and Sunday supplements.
Daily newspaper and weekly · Founded 1923
A nationalist-era newspaper founded by K. P. Kesava Menon during the Indian independence movement. Both the daily edition and its long-running literary weekly are represented in our reprints.
Weekly news magazine · Founded 1975
An influential Malayalam weekly known for its investigative reporting, literary criticism and political commentary during the late twentieth century.
Daily newspaper · Founded 1934
One of the oldest surviving Malayalam dailies, originally published from Thalassery and historically associated with the Indian Union Muslim League.
Daily newspaper · Founded 1987
A Kozhikode-based Malayalam newspaper with a strong tradition of long-form features and cultural reportage.
Weekly magazine
A general-interest Malayalam weekly that has carried interviews, current affairs and cinema coverage since the mid-twentieth century.
Periodical
A long-running Malayalam periodical represented in older entries of the archive.
Daily newspaper
An older Malayalam daily that produced several offshoot publications, including the cinema-focused supplement excerpted in our cinema section.
Weekly magazine
The weekly edition of Deshabhimani, the Malayalam newspaper published by the Communist Party of India (Marxist). The weekly carries political analysis, culture and literature.
Literary weekly
A literary and political weekly that played a significant role in shaping Malayalam modernist writing during the 1970s and 1980s.
Cinema magazine
A dedicated Malayalam-language cinema weekly that documented stars, films and industry profiles through the 1980s.
Cinema magazine
A popular South Indian cinema magazine with extensive coverage of Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu film industries.
Diaspora magazine
A publication serving the Malayali diaspora in the Gulf, a vital source of reportage and interviews from the migrant community.
English-language daily
An English-language daily published from Doha, Qatar. Cited in entries documenting the Malayali diaspora in the Gulf.
Periodical
A Malayalam periodical referenced in older entries of the archive.
Original material
Photographs, scans and editorial notes prepared in-house, including original photographs from the founding A.V.M. Unni collection.
Where original bylines have survived on the source material, we name the author of each article. In cases where a clipping has been cut from a periodical without preserving the byline, we credit the publication itself and mark the entry accordingly. Wherever we have been able to identify photographers, illustrators or designers, those credits are reproduced in the article footer.
If you believe an attribution is incorrect, incomplete or missing, please write to us via our contact page and we will update the entry.