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![]() Front page of The Hindu for 16 March 2005 | |
Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Broadsheet |
Owner(s) |
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Founder(s) | G. Subramania Iyer Nyapathi Subba Rao Pantulu M. Veeraraghavachariar |
Publisher | N. Ravi |
Editor | Suresh Nambath[1] |
Founded | 20 September 1878 |
Political alignment | Centre-left |
Language | English |
Headquarters | Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India |
Country | India |
Circulation | 1,415,792 Daily[2] (as of December 2019) |
ISSN | 0971-751X |
OCLC number | 13119119 |
Website | thehindu.com |
The Hindu is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It was founded as a weekly publication in 1878 by the Triplicane Six, becoming a daily in 1889.[3] It is one of the Indian newspapers of record.[4] [5] [6] As of March 2018[update], The Hindu is published from 21 locations across 11 states of India.[7]
The Hindu has been a family-owned newspaper since 1905, when it was purchased by S. Kasturi Ranga Iyengar from the original founders. It is now jointly owned by Iyengar's descendants, referred to as the "Kasturi family", who serve as the directors of the holding company.
Except for a period of around two years, when S. Varadarajan held the editorship of the newspaper, senior editorial positions of the paper have always been held by members of the original Iyengar family or by those appointed by them under their direction.[8] In June 2023, the former chairperson of the group, Malini Parthasarathy, who is a great-granddaughter of Iyengar,[9][10] announced the end of her term as chairperson of the group, citing "ideological differences" and the "scope for her efforts in freeing the newspaper from editorial biases have narrowed".[11]
Editorial transition
was invoked but never defined (see the help page).The Hindu was wholly the possession of the Kasturi family by this time. After Kasturi Ranga Iyengar's death in 1923, the editorship was passed on to family members.... In mid 2011, Varadarajan became the first person from outside the family to hold the role in the newspaper's history... Besides being chairperson, Parthasarathy is also the director of editorial strategy for The Hindu.
The Hindu Group of Publications is family owned (Kasturi & Sons) and the shares are held equally (25 per cent) by broadly four groups of the progenies of K. Gopalan and K. Sreenivasan (sons of S. Kasturi Ranga Iyengar).