Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Broadsheet |
Owner(s) | Syed Nasarulla |
Founded | 1927 |
Language | Urdu |
Headquarters | Chennai |
Circulation | 22,000 |
The Musalman (Urdu: مسلمان, romanized: musalmān) is the oldest Urdu-language daily newspaper published from Chennai in India.[1] It is an evening paper with four pages, all of which are handwritten by calligraphers, before being mass-produced with a printing press.[2] According to Wired and The Times of India, The Musalman is possibly the only surviving handwritten newspaper in the world.[1][3]