Theekkathir is being published from Madurai, Chennai, Coimbatore and Tiruchirappalli.

[1] In 1963, Theekkathir was started as a weekly from Chennai with the fund collected by Coimbatore mill workers.

Its regular edition was launched in 1969 at Madurai and became a daily newspaper in 1971.

[citation needed] The paper's second edition started from Chennai in 1993.

The fourth edition from Tiruchirappalli was launched as a conclusion of the August campaign.