Under the inspiration of Swami Vivekananda, a group of his disciples in Madras, which included G. Venkataranga Rao, M.C.

Nanjunda Rao, and Alasinga Perumal, started a monthly journal titled Brahmavadin on 14 September 1895.

Soon after, the legacy of Brahmavadin was continued by a new journal, The Vedanta Kesari, which was started by Sri Ramakrishna Math, Chennai, and has been in circulation ever since.

The Vedanta Kesari is one of India's oldest English-language religious magazines, having been published for 106 years as of 2019.

[citation needed] Since 1978, the magazine has been regularly bringing out an annual issue centred on a particular theme.

Some of its popular theme-based issues published so far are: Yoga and its Aspects, Values for the Present Age, Globalization, Religion Today, Culture and Civilization, Channeling Youth Power, Nurturing Inter - personal Relationship, Upanishads in Daily Life, among others.

The April 1926 issue stated: "Swami Sharvananda who has been the President of the Ramakrishna Math and Mission in Madras since 1911 and has been editing the Vedanta Kesari from its very start is retiring from work after nineteen years of strenuous labour.

He was also intimately connected with the editorial work and the publication of the Vedanta Kesari for a long period.