Ananda Vikatan ஆனந்த விகடன்

Posted on Jul 24, 2009

Website of Ananda Vikatan ஆனந்த விகடன் a leading Tamil language weekly magazine published from Chennai, India is frequently searched on internet. Ananda Vikatan is part of the Vikatan group which is also publishing Junior Vikatan (ஜூனியர் விகடன்), Chutti Vikatan (சுட்டி விகடன்), Aval Vikatan (அவள் விகடன்), Naanayam Vikatan (நாணயம் விகடன்), Sakthi Vikatan (சக்தி விகடன்), Motor Vikatan (மோட்டார் விகடன்) and Pasumai Vikatan (பசுமை விகடன).

The news magazine was in news recently as the Union Minister A. Raja and his wife, M.A. Parameswari, filed a case in court against them for publishing “defamatory news items and photographs” of them and their minor daughter in the bi-weekly magazine causing damage to their reputation.

The website is at following URL

http://www.vikatan.com/

Vikatan was started by S.S.Vasan in 1928 when he purchased a humour magazine that was not doing well for Rs. 200. The first issue Working hard, he built it up into a weekly and soon the weekly scaled to the top and the best selling Tamil magazine Ananda Vikatan is still running successfully after nearly eighty years.

Vikatan has now evolved as Vikatan group and became an icon in the Tamil Nadu magazine industry. Vikatan over the years has provided the opportunity for many great Tamil writers such as Kalki Krishnamurthy கல்கி கிருஷ்னமூர்த்தி, Devan தேவன், Sujatha Rangarajan(சுஜாதா), Kalaimani Kothamangalam Subbu கலைமணி கொத்தமங்கலம் சுப்பு and Nadodi நாடோடி, to name a few.