The Times of India was launched as the Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce in 1838. It has become the unofficial masthead of India, chronicling every momentous milestone in history. It has grown from a single edition of a few thousand copies to some 50 editions with a circulation close to five million.It has all along been contemporary and relevant. Dr JE Brennan was the frist editor in 1838. By 1850, the biweekly became a daily. It tied up with Reuters. The masthead changed to The Times of India in 1861. The paper came to Delhi after a century  — in 1950. A year later before independence, Bennet Coleman & Co. passed into Indian hands, and Frank Moraes became the first home-grown Editor of the paper. N J Nanporia, Sham Lal, Girilal Jain, Dileep Padgaonkar, Gautam Adhikari and Jaideep Bose continue the tradition. In 1991, the first page made way for urban issues, social trends and human interest stories. A good newspaper, Arthur Miller once said, ‘is a nation talking to itself.’