Afaqs: Where most dailies have lost out readers in Tamil Nadu, it is Daily Thanthi that rules among the rest. Dinakaran, and three English dailies, The Hindu, The Times of India (TOI) and The New Indian Express are among others that have survived well as per the Indian Readership Survey (IRS) 2010 Q1.
Daily Thanthi continues to be the No. 1 daily in the state, with a total readership of 2 crore. The newspaper has maintained status quo — it has lost 9,000 readers, which is negligible — in this round. However, the Tamil daily had lost 1.64 lakh readers in the previous round (R2, 2009).