The Mail (Madras)

It was the first evening newspaper in India which is now operating as a news and media website.

[1][2] The Madras Mail was started by two journalists, Charles Lawson and Henry Cornish on 14 December 1868.

Lawson and Cornish had earlier served as editors in The Madras Times before resigning from editorship after a tiff-off with Gantz & Sons which owned the newspaper.

[citation needed] In 1921, the newspaper was purchased by European businessman John Oakshott Robinson who added it to his business conglomerate.

[citation needed] In 1945, the newspaper was purchased by Indian business magnate S. Anantharamakrishnan and the paper was owned by Anantharamakrishnan and his family till its liquidation in 1981.