Hindustan Times (HT) is an Indian English-language daily newspaper founded in 1924 with

roots in the Indian independence movement of the period ("Hindustan" being a historical name
for Northern India).[2]
Hindustan Times is the flagship publication of HT Media Ltd. In 2008 the newspaper reported its
circulation as being over 1.14 million according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, ranking it
as the third largest daily English newspaper in India. The Indian Readership Survey (IRS) 2010
revealed that HT has a readership of (34.67 lakhs), placing it as the second most widely read
English Newspaper in India after The Times of India.[3] It has a wide reach in northern India, with
simultaneous editions from New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Lucknow, Patna, Ranchi, Bhopal and
Chandigarh. The print location of Jaipur was discontinued from June 2006. HT launched a youth
daily, HT Next, in 2004. The Mumbai edition was launched on 14 July 2005 and the Kolkata
edition was launched on early 2000.
Other sister publications of Hindustan Times are Mint (English business daily), Hindustan (Hindi
Daily), Nandan (monthly children's magazine) and Kadambani (monthly literary magazine). The
media group owns a radio channel, Fever, and organises an annual Luxury Conference which has
featured speakers like designer Diane von Fürstenberg, shoemaker Christian Louboutin, Gucci
CEO Robert Polet and Cartier MD Patrick Normand.
Hindustan Times is owned by the KK Birla branch of the Birla family.

Contents
[hide]
• 1 History
• 2 HT Mumbai edition
• 3 Ownership
• 4 Supplements
• 5 Awards
• 6 Columinsts
• 7 See also
• 8 References
• 9 External links

[edit] History
Hindustan Times was founded in 1924 by Master Sunder Singh Lyallpuri, founder-father of the
Akali Movement and the Shiromani Akali Dal in Punjab. S Mangal Singh Gill (Tesildar) and S.
Chanchal Singh (Jandiala, Jullundur) were made in charge of the newspaper. Pt Madan Mohan
Malayia and Master Tara Singh were among the members of the Managing Committee. The
Managing Chairman and Chief Patron was Master Sunder Singh Lyallpuri.
K. M. Panikkar was its first editor with Devdas Gandhi (son of Mahatma Gandhi) on the editor's
panel. The opening ceremony was performed by Mahatma Gandhi on 15 September 1924. The
first issue was published from Naya Bazar, Delhi (now Swami Sharda Nand Marg). It contained
writings and articles from C. F. Andrews, St. Nihal Singh, Maulana Mohammad Ali, C. R.
Reddy (Dr. Cattamanchi Ramalinga Reddy), T. L. Vaswani, Ruchi Ram Sahni, Bernard Haton,
Harinder Nath Chattopadhyaya, Dr Saifuddin Kichlu and Rubi Wasto,n etc.
It has its roots in the Indian independence movement of the first half of the twentieth century and
even faced the noted "Hindustan Times Contempt Case (August-November, 1941)" at Allahabad
High Court.[4] It was edited at times by many important people in India, including Devdas
Gandhi and Khushwant Singh. Sanjoy Narayan, has been appointed the editor in chief of the
paper and was due to take over in August 2008.[5]
Recently[when?] the editorial page has seen a major makeover and has been named "comment" to
bring in more flexibility and some-what less seriousness to the page.
[edit] HT Mumbai edition
HT Mumbai has an eight-page daily lifestyle supplement (in tabloid format) called HT Cafe. It
has its education supplement called Horizons on Wednesdays. The paper also comes with a
magazine on Sundays called Brunch. The Mumbai edition is managed by Mohit Ahuja, an
alumnus of NMIMS, Bombay. The resident editor in Mumbai is Soumya Bhattacharya.
[edit] Ownership
The Delhi-based English newspaper Hindustan Times is part of the KK Birla group and managed
by Shobhana Bhartia, daughter of the industrialist KK Birla and granddaughter of GD Birla. It is
owned by HT Media Ltd. The KK Birla group owns a 69 per cent stake in HT Media, currently
valued at Rs 834 crore. When Shobhana Bhartia joined Hindustan Times in 1986, she was the
first woman chief executive of a national newspaper. Shobhana has been nominated as a Rajya
Sabha MP from Congress Party.
Along with Hindustan Times, HT Media owns Desimartini, Fever 104 FM, amd Mint
(newspaper).
[edit] Supplements
• Brunch: A weekly magazine, distributed every Sunday, for the last few years. Includes
entries by noted columnists like Vir Sanghvi, Seema Sharma, and a cover story. This very
popular feature of the newspaper also includes an interview in the end by a famous
celebrity.
• HT City / Cafe: A popular daily supplement, freely distributed with the newspaper,
includes commentary on lighter news, updates of happenings around the city in which it
is distributed, coverage of local parties and celebrity gossip.
• HT Horizons: A supplement providing information to students across the country help in
the form of sample career options, career counselling, latest campus news, psychological
counselling etc.
This is really good achievement at all alo they have to continue with that
[edit] Awards
HT has a good track record at the IFRA and has won several awards this year.[citation needed]
[edit] Columinsts
• Vir Sanghvi: Vir Sanghvi is an ex-editor of Hindustan Times. He writes two columns
every Sunday, one entitled Counter Point for the main paper and "Rude Food" for
 Brunch, a weekly supplement. Hindustan Times was used as a forum in Radiagate
scandal by Vir Sanghvi to promote interests of Mukesh Ambani.[6] This has generated a
massive debate on the questions of journalistic ethics with several leading personalities
calling for the removal of Vir Sanghvi and Barkha Dutt.[7] Subsequently Vir Sanghvi,
who was Advisory Editorial Director of HT Media Ltd, has been divested of his editorial
designation and re-designated as Advisor, HT Media.[8] His columns have also been
suspended.
• Karan Thapar: Currently the president of Infotainment Television and one of India's
noted television commentators and interviewers, Karan Thapar writes the weekly column
"Sunday Sentiments".
• Manas Chakravarty: Capital market analyst for Mint. Writes weekly column "Loose
Canon" on Sundays'.
• Poonam Saxena: She is the editor of Brunch, the Hindustan Times Sunday magazine. She
does a weekly TV review column, "Small Screen".
• Indrajit Hazra: A novelist and a senior editor at Hindustan Times, Hazra writes the
weekly column "Red Herring".
• Sonal Kalra: An author and editor of HT City, the daily entertainment and lifestyle
supplement of Hindustan Times, Writes the weekly column "A Calmer You".
• Khushwant Singh: An editorial writer whose column "With Malice towards One and All"
appears in the Saturday edition.
• Barkha Dutt: Journalist and NDTV Group editor. Writes a fortnightly column.
• Kadambari Murali: Recently ex-National Sports Editor. Kadambari held many positions
within HT but most notably as National Sports Editor. She was the first woman to hold
this position in any major newspaper in the world. She is now Sports Illustrated India
Editor-N-Chief.

Editor-in-chief Mr Sanjoy Narayan

Founded 1924

Political alignment Centrist[1]

The Times of India (TOI) is an English-language daily newspaper in India. It has the largest
circulation among all English-language newspapers in the world, across all formats (broadsheet,
tabloid, compact, Berliner and online).[1][2] It is owned and managed by Bennett, Coleman & Co.
Ltd. which is owned by the Sahu Jain family.
In the year 2008, the newspaper reported that (with a circulation of over 3.14 million) it was
certified by the Audit Bureau of Circulations as the world's largest selling English-language daily
newspaper, placing as the 8th largest selling newspaper in any language in the world.[3]
According to the Indian Readership Survey (IRS) 2010, the Times of India is the most widely
read English newspaper in India with a readership of 70.35 lakhs (7.035 million). This ranks the
Times of India as the top English newspaper in India by readership.[4] According to ComScore,
TOI Online is the world's most-visited newspaper website with 159 million page views in May
2009, ahead of the New York Times, The Sun, Washington Post, Daily Mail and USA Today
websites.

Contents
[hide]
• 1 History
• 2 Times today
• 3 Editions
• 4 Key persons
• 5 See also
• 6 References
• 7 External links

[edit] History
The Times Of India was founded on November 3, 1838 as 'The Bombay Times and Journal of
Commerce' In Mumbai,[5] during the British Raj. Published every Saturday and Wednesday, The
Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce was launched as a semi-weekly edition. It contained
news from Britain and the world, as well as the Subcontinent. The daily editions of the paper
were started from 1850 and in 1861, the Bombay Times was renamed The Times of India. In the
19th century this newspaper company employed more than 800 people and had a sizable
circulation in India and Europe. It was after India's Independence that the ownership of the paper
passed on to the then famous industrial family of Dalmiyas and later it was taken over by Sahu
Shanti Prasad Jain of the Sahu Jain group from Bijnore, UP.
India's press in the 1840s was a motley collection of small-circulation daily or weekly sheets
printed on rickety presses. Few extended beyond their small communities and seldom tried to
unite the many castes, tribes, and regional subcultures of India. The Anglo-Indian papers
promoted purely British interests. Robert Knight (1825–1892) was the principal founder and the
first editor of the Times.
The son of a London bank clerk from the lower-middle-class, Knight proved a skilled writer and
passionate reformer. Knight helped create a vibrant national newspaper industry in British India.
When the Sepoy Mutiny erupted, Knight was acting editor of the Bombay Times and Standard.
He broke with the rest of the English language press (which focused on Indian savagery and
treachery) and instead blamed the violence on the lack of discipline and poor leadership in the
army. That angered the Anglo community, but attracted the Times's Indian shareholders, who
made him the permanent editor. Knight blasted the mismanagement and greed of the Raj,
attacking annexation policies that appropriated native lands and arbitrarily imposed taxes on
previously exempt land titles, ridiculing income taxes, and exposing school systems that
disregarded Indian customs and needs. Knight led the paper to national prominence. In 1860, he
bought out the Indian shareholders and merged with the rival Bombay Standard, and started
India's first news agency. It wired Times dispatches to papers across the country and became the
Indian agent for Reuters news service. In 1861, he changed the name from the Bombay Times
and Standard to the Times of India. Knight fought for a press free of prior restraint or
intimidation, frequently resisting the attempts by governments, business interests, and cultural
spokesmen.[6]
[edit] Times today
The Times of India is published by the media group Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. This company,
along with its other group companies, known as The Times Group, also publishes The Economic
Times, Mumbai Mirror,Pune Mirror, "Bangalore Mirror, "Ahmedabad Mirror", the Navbharat
Times (a Hindi-language daily broadsheet), the Maharashtra Times (a Marathi-language daily
broadsheet).
In late 2006, Times Group acquired Vijayanand Printers Limited(VPL). VPL used to publish two
Kannada newspapers Vijay Karnataka and Usha Kiran and an English daily Vijay Times. Vijay
Karnataka was the leader in the Kannada newspaper segment then.[7]
In January 2007, the Kannada edition was launched in Bangalore and in April 2008 the Chennai
edition was launched. Their main rivals in India are The Hindu and Hindustan Times, which hold
second and third position by circulation.[8]
There was a serious backlash against the paper's irresponsible coverage following the verdict of
Ayodhya disputed land case. This also provoked serious criticism about the paper's poor news
standards in Twitter.[citation needed]
[edit] Editions

TOI press at Sahibabad

The Times of India is printed from the following places in India: Ahmedabad, Bangalore,
Chandigarh, Chennai,Coimbatore, Delhi, Goa, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kanpur, Kolkata, Lucknow,
Mumbai, Mysore, Nagpur, Patna, and Pune.
The total average circulation for 2010 was 3,433,000 copies. [9]
[edit] Key persons
• Indu Jain, current Chairperson
• Samir Jain, Vice-Chairman & Publisher
• Vineet Jain, Chairman
• Ravi Dhariwal, CEO
• Jug Suraiya (associate editor, columnist, "Jugular Vein," cartoonist, "Dubyaman II")
• Swaminathan Aiyar (columnist, "Swaminomics")
• R. K. Laxman ("You Said It" editorial cartoon, featuring the famous Common Man)
• Rukmini Subramanian, Senior Writer
• Bachi Karkaria, columnist, "Erratica"
 • Vinay Pandey, Editor-Online
• Vinita Nangia, Editor-Times Life
• Shobha De, columnist
• Abhinav Asthana, Editorial Director
• Arindam Sen Gupta, Executive Editor
• Dileep Padgaonkar, Former Editor, currently Consulting Editor and columnist
• M J Akbar, Columnist, "The Siege Within" and former Editorial Team
• Gurcharan Das, Columnist
• K. Subrahmanyam, Columnist and Strategic Affairs commentator
• Gautam Adhikari, former Executive Editor, Editorial Consultant
• Russi Karanjia, assistant editor during the 1930s
• Trivadi, columnist and humorist well known for his editorials, humor pieces, and satirical
poems.
• Chetan Bhagat, Columnist,Sunday TOI

Owner Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd.

Publisher The Times Group

Editor-in-chief Jaideep Bose

Associate editor Jug Suraiya

Founded 3 November 1838, Mumbai

Language English

Times House
Headquarters 7 Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New Delhi,
Delhi 110002

Circulation 3,146,000 Daily

Sister The Economic Times

 newspapers

OCLC number 23379369

Official website Timesofindia.com

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 The March 16, 2005 front page of The Hindu

Type Daily newspaper

Format Broadsheet

Owner Kasturi & Sons Ltd.

Publisher The Hindu Group

Editor-in-chief N. Ram

Founded 20 September 1878

Political
Left-wing
alignment

Language English

859-860 Anna Salai Rd,

Headquarters
Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600002
 Circulation 1,466,304 daily[1]

ISSN 0971-751X

OCLC number 13119119

Official
TheHindu.com
website

The Hindu is an Indian English-language daily newspaper published since 1878. With a
circulation of 1.46 million,[1] The Hindu is the second-largest circulated daily English newspaper
in India after Times of India, and slightly ahead of The Economic Times. According to the Indian
Readership Survey (IRS) 2010 The Hindu is the third most-widely read English newspaper in
India (after Times of India and Hindustan Times) with a readership of 21.59 lakhs.[2] It has its
largest base of circulation in South India, especially Tamil Nadu. Headquartered at Chennai
(formerly called Madras), The Hindu was published weekly when it was launched in 1878, and
started publishing daily in 1889.
The Hindu became, in 1995, the first Indian newspaper to offer an online edition.[3]
The Hindu is published from 14 locations—Bangalore, Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi, Hubli,
Hyderabad, Kochi, Kolkata, Madurai, Mangalore, Thiruvananthapuram, Tiruchirapalli,
Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam.

Contents
[hide]
• 1 History
• 2 Partial list of directors
○ 2.1 Board of Directors
• 3 Reviews
• 4 Achievements
• 5 Supplements and features
• 6 Online presence
• 7 Controversy
• 8 See also
• 9 Citations
• 10 References
• 11 External links

[edit] History
The first issue of The Hindu was published on September 20, 1878, by a group of six young men,
led by G. Subramania Aiyer, a radical social reformer and school teacher from Thiruvaiyyar near
Thanjavur. Aiyer, then 23, along with his 21-year-old fellow-tutor and friend at Pachaiyappa's
College, M. Veeraraghavachariar of Chingleput, and four law students, T.T. Rangachariar, P.V.
Rangachariar, D. Kesava Rao Pantulu and N. Subba Rao Pantulu were members of the
Triplicane Literary Society. The British-controlled English language local newspapers had been
campaigning against the appointment of the first Indian, T. Muthuswami Iyer, to the Bench of
the Madras High Court in 1878. "The Triplicane Six," in an attempt to counter the dominant
attitudes in the English language press started The Hindu on one British rupee and twelve annas
of borrowed money. Aiyer was the editor and Veeraraghavachariar the Managing Director. The
first editorial declared, "[the] Press does not only give expression to public opinion, but also
modifies and moulds it."
Three of the students soon left the paper and took up careers in law, while Pantulu continued to
write for The Hindu. The founders of the newspaper maintained a neutral stance regarding
British rule, and occasionally, as in an editorial of 1894, held that British rule had been beneficial
to Indian people. "However, it was equally convinced that the Anglo-Indian Press should be
challenged, despotic bureaucrats condemned, and the abuse of power exposed," writes historian
S. Muthiah.[4]
Initially printing 80 copies a week at the Srinidhi Press in Mint Street, Black Town, The Hindu
was published every Wednesday evening as an eight-page paper, each a quarter of today's page
size and sold for four annas (1/4 Rupee). After a month of printing from the Srinidhi Press, the
newspaper switched to the Scottish Press, also in Black Town. The earliest available issue of the
paper is dated June 21, 1881. In 1881, it moved to Ragoonada Row's "The Hindu Press" of
Mylapore, with the intention of making it tri-weekly. This plan did not materialize until it moved
to the Empress of India Press, where, starting on October 1, 1883, is was published on every
Monday, Wednesday and Friday evening; it continued maintaining the same size as before.
The offices moved to rented premises at 100 Mount Road on December 3, 1883. The newspaper
started printing at its own press there, christened "The National Press," which was established on
borrowed capital as public subscriptions were not forthcoming. The building itself became The
Hindu's in 1892, after the Maharaja of Vizianagaram, Pusapati Ananda Gajapati Raju, gave The
National Press a loan both for the building and to carry out needed expansion.
Its assertive editorials earned The Hindu the nickname, the Maha Vishnu of Mount Road. "From
the new address, 100 Mount Road, which to remain The Hindu's home till 1939, there issued a
quarto-size paper with a front-page full of advertisements—a practice that came to an end only in
1958 when it followed the lead of its idol, the pre-Thomson Times—and three back pages also at
the service of the advertiser. In between, there were more views than news."[4] After 1887, when
the annual session of Indian National Congress was held in Madras, the paper's coverage of
national news increased significantly, and led to the paper becoming an evening daily starting
April 1, 1889.
The partnership between Veeraraghavachariar and Subramania Aiyer was dissolved in October
1898. Aiyer quit the paper and Veeraraghavachariar became the sole owner and appointed C.
Karunakara Menon as editor. However, The Hindu's adventurousness began to decline in the
1900s and so did its circulation, which was down to 800 copies when the sole proprietor decided
to sell out. The purchaser was The Hindu's Legal Adviser from 1895, S. Kasturi Ranga Iyengar, a
politically ambitious lawyer who had migrated from a Kumbakonam village to practise in
Coimbatore and from thence to Madras. Kasturi Ranga Iyengar's ancestors had served the courts
of Vijayanagar and Mahratta Tanjore. He traded law, in which his success was middling but his
interest minimal, for journalism, pursuing his penchant for politics honed in Coimbatore and by
his association with the `Egmore Group' led by C. Sankaran Nair and Dr T.M. Nair.
In late 1980s when its ownership passed into the hands of the family's younger members, a
change[citation needed] in political leaning was observed. Worldpress.org lists The Hindu as a left-
leaning independent newspaper.[5] Joint Managing Director N. Murali said in July 2003, "It is
true that our readers have been complaining that some of our reports are partial and lack
objectivity. But it also depends on reader beliefs." [6] N. Ram was appointed on June 27, 2003 as
its editor-in-chief with a mandate to "improve the structures and other mechanisms to uphold and
strengthen quality and objectivity in news reports and opinion pieces", authorised to "restructure
the editorial framework and functions in line with the competitive environment".[7] On September
3 and 23 , 2003, the reader's letters column carried responses from readers saying the editorial
was biased.[8][9] An editorial in August 2003 observed that the newspaper was affected by the
'editorialising as news reporting' virus, and expressed a determination to buck the trend, restore
the professionally sound lines of demarcation, and strengthen objectivity and factuality in its
coverage.[10]
In 1987–88 The Hindu's coverage of the Bofors arms deal scandal, a series of document-backed
exclusives set the terms of the national political discourse on this subject. The Bofors scandal
broke in April 1987 with Swedish Radio alleging that bribes had been paid to top Indian political
leaders, officials and Army officers in return for the Swedish arms manufacturing company
winning a hefty contract with the Government of India for the purchase of 155 mm howitzers.
During a six-month period the newspaper published scores of copies of original papers that
documented the secret payments, amounting to $50 million, into Swiss bank accounts, the
agreements behind the payments, communications relating to the payments and the crisis
response, and other material. The investigation was led by part-time correspondent of The Hindu,
Chitra Subramaniam reporting from Geneva, and was supported by Ram in Chennai. The scandal
was a major embarrassment to the party in power at the centre, the Indian National Congress, and
its leader Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. The paper's editorial accused the Prime Minister of being
party to massive fraud and cover up.[11]
In 1991, Deputy Editor N. Ravi, Ram's younger brother replaced G. Kasturi as Editor. Nirmala
Lakshman, Kasturi Srinivasan's granddaughter, became Joint Editor of The Hindu and her sister,
Malini Parthasarathy, Executive Editor.
In 2003, the Jayalalitha Government of the state of Tamil Nadu, of which Chennai is the capital,
filed cases against the paper for "breach of privilege" of the state legislative body. The move was
widely perceived as a government's assault on freedom of the press. However, The Hindu
emerged unscathed from the ordeal, scoring both political and legal victories, as it instantly
commanded the support of the journalistic community throughout the country.[12]
The younger generation of The Hindu's editors have also contributed much to its commercial
success. They built a modern infrastructure for news-gathering, printing and distribution. On the
look of the newspaper, editor-in-chief Ram writes, "The Hindu has been through many
evolutionary changes in layout and design, for instance, moving news to the front page that used
to be an ad kingdom; adopting modular layout and make-up; using large photographs;
introducing colour; transforming the format of the editorial page to make it a purely 'views' page;
avoiding carry-over of news stories from one page to another; and introducing boxes, panels,
highlights, and briefs." Major layout changes appeared starting <date missing< (redesign by
Edwin Taylor) and starting Apr 14, 2005 (redesign by Mario Garcia and Jan Kny). The focus of
Garcia's redesign was on "giving pre-eminence to text, including (where appropriate and
necessary) long text, but also by enabling photographs, other graphics, and white space to have
an enhanced role on the pages; by giving the reader more legible typography, an efficient
indexing or 'navigation' system, a clear hierarchy of stories, a new and sophisticated colour
palette; and by offering the advertiser better value and new opportunities."[13]
The Hindu is family-run. It was headed by G. Kasturi from 1965 to 1991, N. Ravi from 1991 to
2003, and by his brother, N. Ram, since June 27, 2003. Other family members, including
Nirmala Lakshman, Malini Parthasarathy, Nalini Krishnan, N Murali, K Balaji, K Venugopal
and Ramesh Rangarajan are directors of The Hindu and its parent company, Kasturi and Sons. S
Rangarajan, former managing director and chairman since April 2006, died on 8 February 2007.
Ananth Krishnan, who is the first member of the youngest generation of the family to join the
business has been working as a special correspondent in Chennai and Mumbai since 2007.
[edit] Partial list of directors
• G. Subramania Iyer (1878–1898)
• M. Veeraraghavachariar (1898–1904)
• Kasturi Ranga Iyengar (1904–1923)
• S. Rangaswami (1923–1926)
• K. Srinivasan (1926–1959)
• G. Narasimhan (1959–1977)
• N. Ram (1977–), Editor-in-Chief

[edit] Board of Directors

The Hindu Group is managed by the descendants of Kasturi Ranga Iyengar. As of 2010, there are
12 directors in the board of Kasturi & Sons—N. Ram, N. Ravi and N. Murali (sons of G.
Narasimhan); Malini Parthasarathy, Nirmala Lakshman and Nalini Krishnan (children of S.
Parthasarathy); Ramesh Rangarajan, Vijaya Arun and Akila Iyengar (children of S. Rangarajan);
K. Balaji, K. Venugopal and Lakshmi Srinath (children of G. Kasturi).[14]
[edit] Reviews
The Times, London listed The Hindu as one of the world's ten best newspapers in 1965.
Discussing each of its choices in separate articles, The Times wrote:

In 1968, the American Newspaper Publishers' Association awarded The Hindu its World Press
Achievement Award. An extract from the citation reads:

[edit] Achievements
The Hindu has many firsts in India to its credit,[11][15] which include the following
• 1940: First to introduce colour
• 1963: First to own fleet of aircraft for distribution
 • 1969: First to adopt facsimile system of page transmission
• 1980: First to use computer aided photo composing
• 1986: First to use satellite for facsimile transmission
• 1994: First to adopt wholly computerized integration of text and graphics in
page make-up and remote imaging
• 1995: First newspaper to go on Internet
• 1999: Becomes India national news paper

[edit] Supplements and features

• Mondays: Metro Plus, Business Review, Education Plus
• Tuesday: Metro Plus, Young World, Book Review
• Wednesdays: Metro Plus, Job Opportunities
• Thursdays: Metro Plus, Science, Engineering, Technology & Agriculture, NXg
• Friday: Friday Features, Cinema Plus
• Saturday: Metro plus, Property Plus,
• Sunday: Weekly Magazine,Metro Plus Weekend, Downtown, Retail Plus,
Classifieds, Open Page, Literary Review , every first Sunday
• Daily features: This day that age, Religion, The Hindu Crossword, Sudoku

[edit] Online presence

The Hindu was the first newspaper in India to have a website, launched in 1995.
On 15 August 2009, the 130-year-old newspaper, launched the beta version of its redesigned
website at beta.thehindu.com. This was the first redesign of its website since its launch. On June
24, 2010 the beta version of the website went fully live at www.hindu.com.[16]
The new website retains its core values of independence, authenticity, and credibility while
adopting contemporary web design principles, tools, and features.
The design is by Mario Garcia Jr., of Garcia Media, Tampa, Florida, USA. The workflow
solution is by CCI Europe A/S, Denmark. The web publishing system is from Escenic A/S,
Norway. The implementation was done in-house.
[edit] Controversy
The Hindu has been accused of an anti-Tamil slant in its writing by many advocates for the rights
of Sri Lankan Tamils.[17] Prominent Sri Lankan political commentator David Jeyaraj claimed he
was fired from The Hindu for exposing IPKF atrocities against the Sri Lankan Tamils.[18] N.Ram
was awarded the "Sri Lanka Rathna", the highest civilian award that can be conferred on a
foreigner in Sri Lanka in November 2005.
In light of opinion pieces published by the head of The Hindu, N. Ram, extolling China's
governance of Tibet[19] and other perceived slights, many commentators, have claimed a
Sinophilic bias in the writings of the paper. B. Raman director of the South Asia Analysis Group
stated "Its sympathy for China and its policy in recent years of keeping out of its columns any
report or article of a negative nature on China is well known." and went on to further claim that
"its policy of placing its columns at the disposal of the Xinhua news agency of China" make it a
mouthpiece of the Chinese government.[20]
The Hoot, an Indian media watchdog group claimed that "of late there had been too much
editorialising in the news columns of The Hindu".[21]
[edit] See also
Chennai
portal

• The Hindu Business Line

[edit] Citations
a b
1. ^ The Hindu : About Us
2. ^ "Indian Readership Survey (IRS) 2010 — Quarter 1". Newswatch.in. June
30, 2010. http://www.newswatch.in/newsblog/7983. Retrieved 2007-10-16.
3. ^ N. Murali (13 September 2003). "Core values and high quality standards".
The Hindu. http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?
file=2003091301020800.htm&date=2003/09/13/&prd=th125&. Retrieved
2006-04-20.
4. ^ a b S. Muthiah (13 September 2003). "Willing to strike and not reluctant to
wound". http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?
file=2003091300770200.htm&date=2003/09/13/&prd=th125&. Retrieved
2006-04-25.
5. ^ Worldpress.org, the directory of online Indian newspapers and magazines
lists The Hindu as "Left-leaning, independent", and its biweekly sister
publication Frontline as "Independent biweekly".
6. ^ Venkatachari Jagannathan (1 June 2003). "Change of guard".
http://www.domain-
b.com/companies/companies_k/kasturi_sons/20030701_change_of_guard.htm
. Retrieved 2006-04-20.
7. ^ "The job of a reporter is to write news, not to comment". 11 November
2005. http://www.prdomain.com/feature/feature_details.asp?
id=119&area=J&typ=A. Retrieved 2006-04-20. An interview with N. Ram,
editor-in-chief of The Hindu
8. ^ "Opinion - Letters to the Editor". 3 September 2003.
http://www.hinduonnet.com/2003/09/03/stories/2003090302701002.htm.
Retrieved 2006-04-20.
9. ^ "Opinion - Letters to the Editor". 23 September 2003.
http://www.hinduonnet.com/2003/09/23/stories/2003092300861002.htm.
Retrieved 2006-04-20.
10.^ "The Hindu". The Hindu. 27 August 2003.
http://www.hinduonnet.com/2003/08/27/stories/2003082700621000.htm.
Retrieved 2006-04-20.
 11.^ a b c d "Developing a paper for a new reader". The Hindu. 13 September
2003. http://www.hinduonnet.com/th125/stories/2003091300830500.htm.
Retrieved 2006-04-20. See paragraph #30
12.^ Onkar Singh (8 November 2003). "Journalists protest TN assembly's arrest
of scribes". http://inhome.rediff.com/news/2003/nov/08hindu.htm. Retrieved
2006-04-20.
13.^ N. Ram (14 April 2005). "Introducing our new look newspaper". The Hindu.
http://www.hindu.com/2005/04/14/stories/2005041406580100.htm. Retrieved
2008-08-20.
14.^ Shukla, Archna (25 March 2010). "Battle for control breaks out in The Hindu
very divided family". Indian Express.
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/battleforcontrolbreaksoutinthehinduvery
dividedfamily/595373/0. Retrieved 25 March 2010.
15.^ "Guided by a vision of tomorrow". The Hindu. 13 September 2003.
http://www.hinduonnet.com/th125/stories/2003091300071000.htm.
Retrieved 2008-08-20.
16.^ "Our new website goes fully live on June 29". The Hindu. June 23, 2010.
http://www.hindu.com/2010/06/23/stories/2010062362190100.htm. Retrieved
June 26, 2010.
17.^ Attack on media: freedom, arrogance and playing with the will of people
TamilNet, October 16, 2008
18.^ About - David Jeyaraj
19.^ Tibet in the time of high economic growth The Hindu, July 3, 2007
20.^ CHINA: As Seen & Interpreted by "The Hindu" South Asia Analysis Group,
August 17, 2009
21.^ The Hindu sermonizes on Indian journalism The Hoot, August 29, 2009

[edit] References
• 125 years of The Hindu
• N. Ram (13 September 2003). "Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow". The Hindu.
http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?
file=2003091300500100.htm&date=2003/09/13/&prd=th125&. Retrieved
2006-04-20.
• Looking Back: The history of The Hindu as told by historian S. Muthiah.
○ "Willing to strike and not reluctant to wound". 13 September 2003.
http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?
file=2003091300770200.htm&date=2003/09/13/&prd=th125&.
Retrieved 2006-04-28.
○ "Making news the family business". 13 September 2003.
http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?
file=2003091300800200.htm&date=2003/09/13/&prd=th125&.
Retrieved 2006-04-28.
○ "A clarion call against the Raj". 13 September 2003.
http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?
 file=2003091300810200.htm&date=2003/09/13/&prd=th125&.
Retrieved 2006-04-28.
○ "Treading softly - but modernizing apace". 13 September 2003.
http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?
file=2003091300820400.htm&date=2003/09/13/&prd=th125&.
Retrieved 2006-04-28.
○ "Developing a paper for the new reader". 13 September 2003.
http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?
file=2003091300830500.htm&date=2003/09/13/&prd=th125&.
Retrieved 2006-04-28.
• N. Murali (13 September 2003). "Core values and high quality standards".
The Hindu. http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?
file=2003091301020800.htm&date=2003/09/13/&prd=th125&. Retrieved
2006-04-20.

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