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{{Infobox newspaper
| name = Kesari
| logo = Kesari(newspaper)Logo.jpg
| logo_size = 220px
| image = Kesari(newspaper)Cover.jpg
| image_size = 240px
| caption =
| type = Daily [[newspaper]]
| format = Print, online
| foundation = {{start date and age|4 January 1881}}
| price on sundays =
| political = [[Centre-right|Centre-right politics]]
| owners = Kesari Maratha Trust
| publisher = Kesari Maratha Trust
| chiefeditor =
| language = [[Marathi language|Marathi]]
| headquarters =
| circulation =
| website = {{url|http://www.dailykesari.com/}}
| founder = [[Bal Gangadhar Tilak]]
| ISSN =
| oclc =
}}
[[File:KESARI.jpg|thumb|200px|First edition of ''Kesari'' newspaper]]
[[File:Kesari Editorial.jpg|thumb|200px|Editorial of the newspaper]]
'''''Kesari''''' ({{lang-mr|केसरी}} [[Sanskrit]] for lion) is a [[Marathi language|Marathi]] [[newspaper]] which was founded in 4 January 1881 by Lokmanya [[Bal Gangadhar Tilak]], a prominent leader of the Indian Independence movement. The newspaper was used as a spokes piece for the [[Indian freedom movement|Indian national freedom movement]], and continues to be published by the Kesari Maratha Trust and Tilak's descendants.<ref>{{cite web |title=About the Vice Chancellor - Deepak J.Tilak |url=http://www.tmv.edu.in/aboutvc.asp |website=tmv.edu.in |publisher=Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth |access-date=17 June 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Retracing the legend of Gangadhar Tilak at Kesariwada |url=http://indiaheritagesites.wordpress.com/2013/09/11/retracing-the-legend-of-gangadhar-tilak-at-kesari-wada/ |website=hfghbbitagesites.wordpress.com |publisher=Blog - Indian Heritage Sites |access-date=17 June 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tendency-to-dumb-down-journalism-disturbing-n-ram/article75615.ece |title=Tendency to dumb down journalism disturbing: N. Ram |newspaper=[[The Hindu]] |date=4 January 2010 |access-date=7 January 2013 |author=Inamdar, Siddhesh |location=Pune}}</ref>

Bal Gangadhar Tilak used to run his two newspapers, ''Kesari'', in [[Marathi language|Marathi]] and ''[[Mahratta (newspaper)|Mahratta]] (Run by Kesari-Maratha Trust)''<ref>{{cite web |last1=Mone (Tilak) |first1=Mrs. Geetali Hrishikesh |title=The Role of Free Circulation in Optimum Newspaper Development - Ph.D. thesis submission |url=http://www.shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in |website=shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in |publisher=Preface - Shodhganga |access-date=17 June 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140620074846/http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/ |archive-date=20 June 2014 }}</ref> in [[English language|English]] from Kesari Wada, Narayan Peth, [[Pune]]. The newspapers were originally started as a co-operative by Chiplunkar, [[Gopal Ganesh Agarkar|Agarkar]] and Tilak.

== Initial years, editors and writers ==
The editors of ''Kesari'' included a number of freedom fighters and social activists / reformers, including [[Gopal Ganesh Agarkar|Agarkar]] (its first editor), Chiplunkar and Tilak. Agarkar left Kesari in 1887 to start his own news paper, ''[[Sudharak]]'' (The Reformer) after which Tilak continued to run the paper on his own. [[Narasimha Chintaman Kelkar]], a close associate of Tilak, served as editor twice when Tilak was imprisoned in 1897 and 1908.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Watve |first1=K.N. |title=Sri Narasimha Chintaman "Alias" Tatyasaheb Kelkar |journal=Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute |date=1947 |pages=156–158 |jstor=44028058}}</ref>

==''Kesari'' Prosecution of 1897==
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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ramakrishnavivekananda.info/reminiscences/020_bgt.htm |title=Reminiscences of Swami Vivekananda |website=www.ramakrishnavivekananda.info}}</ref>

==Present day==
An online Marathi periodical called ''The Daily Kesari'' continues to be published, edited by Lokmanya Balgangadhar Tilak's great grandson, Deepak Tilak.<ref>{{cite news |title=Know your city - Pune |url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/know-your-city/1188022/ |access-date=17 June 2014 |newspaper=Indian Express}}</ref>

==Kesari wada and Tilak museum==
The wada was originally known as Gaikwadwada,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://historyofvadodara.in/gaekwad-wada-at-pune/|title=Gaikwad Wada Photo on Maharashra Government Website|website=Maharashtra.gov.in}}</ref> and owned by [[Sayajirao Gaekwad III|Sayajirao Gaikwad III]] the Maharaja of the [[Princely state]] of [[Baroda State|Baroda]]. It was sold to Tilak by the Maharaja in 1905 at a fair price.,<ref>{{Cite web|last=HoVB|date=2017-04-22|title=Gaekwad Wada at Pune|url=https://historyofvadodara.in/gaekwad-wada-at-pune/|access-date=2021-04-08|website=History of Vadodara - Baroda|language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="Tilak1908">{{cite book|author=Bal Gangadhar Tilak|title=Full & Authentic Report of the Tilak Trial: (1908.) Being the Only Authorised Verbatim Account of the Whole Proceedings with Introduction and Character Sketch of Bal Gangadhar Tilak Together with Press Opinion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z0PhaNcSr_UC&pg=PP13|year=1908|publisher=Printed at the Indu-Prakash steam Press|page=17}}</ref> The original ''wada'' ([[Marathi language|Marathi]] for courtyard / building) where Tilak published the newspaper still houses the current day offices of ''Kesari''. Along with offices of Kesari, the courtyard contains the Tilak museum and Kesari-Maratha library. 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]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Pal |first1=Sanchari |title=Remembering Madam Bhikaji Cama, the Brave Lady to First Hoist India’s Flag on Foreign Soil |url=https://www.thebetterindia.com/69290/madam-bhikaji-cama-flag-stuttgart-india/ |website=A better India |access-date=28 June 2018}}</ref> [[Ganesh Chaturthi|During Ganapati festival]], the Wada is visited by a large number of people.<ref>{{cite web |title=Kesari Wada |url=http://www.maharashtratourism.net/monuments/kesari-wada.html |website=maharashtratourism.net |publisher=Maharashtra Tourism |access-date=17 June 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Kesari Wada|url=http://www.punesite.com/kesari-wada-in-pune.html|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180628153140/http://www.punesite.com/kesari-wada-in-pune.html|archive-date=28 June 2018|access-date=17 June 2014|website=punesite.com|publisher=Pune Site}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of newspapers in India]]

==References==
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