The Hindu

This article is about the English newspaper. For the Tamil newspaper, see The Hindu (Tamil). For other uses, see The Hindu (disambiguation).

The Hindu
Front page of The Hindu for 16 March 2005
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)
Founder(s)G. Subramania Iyer
Nyapathi Subba Rao Pantulu
M. Veeraraghavachariar
PublisherN. Ravi
EditorSuresh Nambath[1]
Founded20 September 1878; 146 years ago (1878-09-20)
Political alignmentCentre-left
LanguageEnglish
HeadquartersChennai, Tamil Nadu, India
CountryIndia
Circulation1,415,792 Daily[2] (as of December 2019)
ISSN0971-751X
OCLC number13119119
Websitethehindu.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, 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]

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  2. ^ "Highest Circulated daily Newspapers (language wise)" (PDF). Audit Bureau of Circulations. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 August 2020. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
  3. ^ "About Us News". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 12 May 2018. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  4. ^ Drèze, Jean; Sen, Amartya (21 February 1991). The Political Economy of Hunger: Volume 1: Entitlement and Well-being. Clarendon Press. ISBN 9780191544460. Archived from the original on 29 June 2023. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
  5. ^ "The Hindu".
  6. ^ Bald, Vivek; Chatterji, Miabi; Reddy, Sujani; Vimalassery, Manu (22 July 2013). The Sun Never Sets: South Asian Migrants in an Age of U.S. Power. NYU Press. ISBN 978-0814786437. Archived from the original on 29 June 2023. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
  7. ^ "Expanding footprint". The Hindu. 27 February 2018. Archived from the original on 14 July 2022. Retrieved 23 March 2018.
  8. ^ Konikkara, Aathira; Nileena, M. S. (30 November 2021). "Paper Priests: The battle for the soul of The Hindu". The Caravan. Archived from the original on 6 July 2022. Retrieved 18 June 2022. 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.
  9. ^ Arun Ram (14 July 2003), "N.Ram's appointment as first editor-in-chief of The Hindu trigger rumors about family rift", India Today, archived from the original on 18 June 2022, retrieved 18 June 2022, 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).
  10. ^ "Nirmala Lakshman appointed Chairperson of The Hindu Group Publishing Private Limited". The Hindu. 5 June 2023. ISSN 0971-751X. Archived from the original on 5 June 2023. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
  11. ^ Malini Parthasarthy on Twitter Archived 20 July 2023 at the Wayback Machine. 05 June 2023. twitter.com. Retrieved 20 July 2023.