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Gujarat Samachar

Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner(s)	Lok Prakashan Limited
Publisher	Shreyans Shah
Editor	Shreyans Shah
Founded	1932
Language	Gujarati
Headquarters	Ahmedabad, India
Country	India
Circulation	4,642,000 (Indian Readership Survey 2014)
OCLC number	43611166
Website	gujaratsamachar.com
Media of India List of newspapers

The Gujarat Samachar is the leading Gujarati-language daily newspaper published in India. Its headquarters are in Ahmedabad with a branch in Surat. It is distributed from Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat, Rajkot, Bhavnagar, Mumbai, Mehsana, Bhuj and New York City.

History

The newspaper was founded by Chhabilbhai M. Patel in 1932. It is later acquired by Shantilal Shah in 1952.^[1][2] Its first issue was published on 16 January 1932.^[3]

Availability

Gujarati Samachar is primarily available in the state of Gujarat in India. The newspaper is available in several cities in the state including Ahmedabad, Surat, Rajkot, Bhavnagar, and Baroda, Bhuj, Mehsana, Junagadh among others.

Television channel

It also launched a Gujarati News Channel in December 2012, GSTV.

Notable columnists

• Anil Chavda, poet, writer and columnist
• Bakul Tripathi, humour essayist, writer and columnist
• Hardwar Goswami, poet, writer and columnist
• Jay Vasavada, writer and columnist
• Joravarsinh Jadav, writer, folklorist and columnist
• Kumarpal Desai, author, critic, editor, journalist and columnist
• Makrand Mehta, writer, historian and columnist
• Pravin Darji, writer and columnist
• Rajesh Vyas, poet, writer and columnist
• Vinodini Nilkanth, writer, columnist and novelist
• Harshal Pushkarna, science writer

References

External links

• Gujarat Samachar – official website (in Gujarati)

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