HISTORY OF THE HINDU-NEWSPAPER

HISTORY:
 
The Hindu was founded in Madras on 20 September 1878 as a weekly by four law students (T. T. Rangachariar, P. V. Rangachariar, D. Kesava Rao Pantulu and N. Subba Rao Pantulu) led by G. Subramania Iyer, a school teacher from Tanjore district and M. Veeraraghavachariar, a lecturer at Pachaiyappa's College. The Hindu was started to support the campaign of Sir T. Muthuswamy Iyer for a judgeship at the Madras High Court and to counterbalance the propaganda against him carried out by the Anglo-Indian press. The Hindu was one of the many newspapers of the period established to protest against the discriminatory policies of the British government in India. About 80 copies of the inaugural issue were printed at Srinidhi Press, Georgetown on one rupee and twelves annas of borrowed money. Subramania Iyer became the first editor and Veeraraghavachariar, the first managing director of the newspaper.

MANAGEMENT:

• 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, from 27 June 2003 to 18 January 2012.
•  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 worked as a special correspondent in Chennai and Mumbai from 2007, and foreign correspondent in Beijing from 2009.
•  It now conducts very popular "The Hindu Young World Quiz', hosted by noted quizmaster V.V. Ramanan, that has now completed 12 years and is arguably the largest live, middle-school quiz competition.

MANAGING DIRECTORS:

• M. Veeraraghavachariar (1878–1904)
• S. Kasturi Ranga Iyengar (1904–1923)
• K. Srinivasan (1923–1959)
• G. Narasimhan (1959–1977)
• N. Ram (1977–2011)
• K. Balaji (2011 – present)

EDITORS:

• G. Subramania Iyer (1878–1898)
• C. Karunakara Menon (1898–1905)
• Kasturi Ranga Iyengar (1905–1923)
• S. Rangaswami Iyengar (1923–1926)
• K. Srinivasan (1926–1928)
• A. Rangaswami Iyengar (1928–1934)
• K. Srinivasan (1934–1959)
• S. Parthasarathy (1959–1965)
• G. Kasturi (1965–1991)
• N. Ravi (1991–2003)
• N. Ram (2003–2012)
• Siddharth Varadarajan (2012–present)