They include Kambisseri Karunakaran (who was editor for the longest period and shaped the weekly into its popular form), a theatre personality and humorist, Vaikom Chandrasekharan Nair, a novelist, playwright and orator, Thirunalloor Karunakaran, a revolutionary, poet and scholar, Malayattoor Ramakrishnan, a novelist and cartoonist, and Kaniyapuram Ramachandran, a playwright and orator.
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Presently its editor is Binoy Viswam, Ex Minister, succeeding M. P. Achuthan who is a Member of the Rajya Sabha, upper house of Indian Parliament.