# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pothan-joseph
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:40:41.463Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pothan-joseph"
name: "Pothan Joseph"
slug: "pothan-joseph"
description: "Pothan Joseph (1892–1972) was a journalist in 20th-century India whose career spanned the twenty years before and twenty years after India's independence. He worked with notable people of the time such as Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Annie Besant, Mahatma Gandhi, Sarojini Naidu, and Motilal Nehru. He was the first to write a daily political column for five decades, called 'Over A Cup of Tea', sprinkled with Biblical and Dickensian quotes. He also discovered and nurtured the Indian cartoonist Shankar, helping to make political cartoons a staple of newspapers."
tagline: "Indian journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/PothanJoseph.tif?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1892-03-13"
deathDate: "1972"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.14
  momentum:             0.8680555555555556
  historical:           4.877934666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "पुतेन जोसफ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "پوثان چوزيف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pothan_Joseph"
    title: "Pothan Joseph"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%8B%E0%B0%A5%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D_%E0%B0%9C%E0%B1%8B%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%AB%E0%B1%8D"
    title: "పోథన్ జోసెఫ్"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%AA%E0%B3%8B%E0%B2%A4%E0%B2%A8%E0%B3%8D_%E0%B2%9C%E0%B3%8B%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%86%E0%B2%AB%E0%B3%8D"
    title: "ಪೋತನ್ ಜೋಸೆಫ್"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%BB_%E0%B4%9C%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%B8%E0%B4%AB%E0%B5%8D"
    title: "പോത്തൻ ജോസഫ്"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7234889"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump