Pothan Joseph 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 Jinnah, Annie Besant, 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.