The newspaper was used as a spokes piece for the Indian national freedom movement, and continues to be published by the Kesari Maratha Trust and Tilak's descendants.

[5] Bal Gangadhar Tilak mentions that the letter he received from Swami Vivekananda must have been destroyed along with many others after the close of the Kesari Prosecution of 1897.

[7] The wada was originally known as Gaikwadwada,[8] and owned by Sayajirao Gaikwad III the Maharaja of the Princely state of Baroda.

[9][10] The original wada (Marathi for courtyard / building) where Tilak published the newspaper still houses the current day offices of Kesari.

These together house mementos of Tilak, including his writing desk, a number of original documents, and the first India national flag which was unfurled by Madame Cama in 1907 in Stuttgart.