AP Press Academy Archives Website for Old Newspapers and Magazines

Andhra Pradesh Press Academy has come up with an excellent work of archives old news papers and magazines published in Andhra radesh. The AP Press Academy has launched a new dedicated website for the archives at www.pressacademyarchives.ap.nic.in . The Press Academy has so far collected and archived about 20 lakh pages of various news papers and magazines. Archives are available in the PDF format. You can download the required newspaper / magazine free of cost. Following is the list of newspapers / dailies you can avail through the new website:

1) News Papers: 1) Andhra Jyothy 2) Andhra Patrika 3) Andhra Bhoomi 4) Visalaandhra 5) Andhra Prabha 6) Siasat 7) Rahnuma – E – Deccan 8) Andhra Janatha 9) Raiyat 10) Meezan 11) Golkonda Patrika

2) Magazines / Periodicals: Bi-Monthly: 1) Andhra Sahitya Parishat Patrika 2) Gnana Vahini 3) Janatha 4) Mahabodhi 5) Natya Kala 6) Parishadhana 7) Poorna Bodha Darshani 8) Prathibha 9) The Twentieth Century 10) Udayini

3) Bi-Weekly: Aarsha Sahiti, Andhra Mahila, Andhra Nagara, Andhra Vidyardhi, Aardhika Samatha, Brindavani, Chandrika, Chitra Gupta, Hamsa, Jeevabandhu, Kranthi, Mitra, Natana, Navayuga, Navya Bharathi, Navyandhra, Pilupu etc.

4) General Books: Abhinava Tikkana, Acharya Ranga Jee, Abdhyudaya, Abhinandana Chandrika etc.
5) Half – Yearly: Minimanjari, Vivekananda Kendra Patrika
6) Kaifiyats
7) Monthly: Anandavani, Ananvahini, Abhyudaya, Akasavani, Adivasi, Abhinava Saraswathi, Aata Patalu etc.

8) Weekly: Navodaya, Navayuga, Andhra Prabha, Andhra Jyothi, Andhra Pratrika, Andhra Prakasika etc.

The efforts of Press Academy of Andhra Pradesh are laudable in this respect. There are great collection of magazines and periodicals. So many of these does not exist today and even difficult to collect. There are plenty resources for lovers of Telugu literature, language, humour, patriotism, poetry, stories etc.



22 thoughts on “AP Press Academy Archives Website for Old Newspapers and Magazines”

  1. The website is doing yeomen service to people like me who is interested in knowing the history and other valuable information of the yester years.

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  2. I happened to read great translations: Hunch Back of Notre Dam, A Tale of Two Cities, Count of Monte Christo in Telugu 45 years back as collection from Andhra Patrika weekly. I did not realize the greatness of the translations then. Could I ever read them again? Could someone help me?

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  3. Recently I discovered the archives of Telugu newspapers and magazines. I feel very very happy to read the memories of our culture and polity. I thank those who contributed their efforts for this website. Please keep it up.

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  4. Up to recent years I used to see archives of Telugu news papers (scanned) right from 1939 onwards upto 2000 through the same website. But unfortunately I am unable to see news papers after 1977.

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  5. HYDERABAD: Telangana and Andhra Pradesh have locked horns over the archives of newspapers. The Press Academy in the erstwhile State of AP digitised over 20 lakh pages of various newspapers and magazines. With the ongoing tussle between the sibling States, the archives are not accessible to the people. Several researchers, general public and students access the archives section of the Press Academy for the old newspapers. However, the same has not been available for over six months now.

    After the division of the Press Academy, the National Informatics Centre (NIC), which maintains the data, asked the Media Academy of Telangana State to get permission from AP, to host the archives on its website. The sources in Telangana Press Academy say that they had the originals with them. Despite this, the NIC was not giving the data.

    It may be recalled that the digitisation of old newspapers like Golconda Patrika, Andhra Patrika and magazines like Bharathi was started when Potturi Venkateswara Rao was the combined AP Press Academy chairman. The digitisation was completed when Devulapalli Amar was the combined Press Academy chairman. In fact, Amar handed over the digital sets to Vetapalem and Gowthami libraries.

    With the non-availability of old newspapers on the website, several intellectuals feel that it was not for the Press Academies of both AP and TS to share the information and host the digital copies on their respective websites. Some senior journalists also suggested the Chairman of Andhra Pradesh Press Academy, D Sreenath, get the digital copies either from Vetapalem library or Gowthami library and host them on the Academy website. When contacted, the Media Academy of Telangana State chairman Allam Narayana said that the issue would be resolved in the coming week

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