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Indian journalist
Kasturi Srinivasan
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Born
| Kasturi Ranga Iyengar Srinivasan
(
1887-08-07
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7 August 1887
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Died
| 21 June 1959
(1959-06-21)
(aged 71)
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Nationality
| Indian
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Occupation
| journalist
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Known for
| journalism
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Spouse
| Komala Valli
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Children
| S.Radha,
S.Sembagavalli,
S.Parthasarathy,
S. Rangarajan
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Awards
| Padma Bhushan
(1956)
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Kasturi Srinivasan
(7 August 1887 ? 21 June 1959) was an Indian journalist and businessman. He was the eldest son of
S. Kasturi Ranga Iyengar
.
Biography
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Srinivasan was born to well-known lawyer and journalist,
S. Kasturi Ranga Iyengar
, in August 1887. He graduated from the
Presidency College, Madras
and joined
The Hindu
, the newspaper owned by his family, at an early age. He became the Managing Director of
The Hindu
on the death of Kasturi Ranga Iyengar in 1923 with
S. Rangaswami Iyengar
as Chief Editor. In February 1934, Srinivasan took over as Chief Editor. He led
The Hindu
until his death on 21 June 1959.
Srinivasan was a founder-Chairman of the
Press Trust of India
and was awarded the
Padma Bhushan
in January 1956.
[1]
In 1969, he translated the entire work of the
Tirukkural
into English in verse form.
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He had four children ? two daughters, S. Radha and S. Champakavalli and two sons, Srinivasan Parthasarathy and S. Rangarajan, both of whom publishers of The Hindu. The immensely popular Parthasarathy, who was Publisher of
The Hindu
, died shortly after his father at the age of 33. He had a wide circle of friends in
The Hindu
, India and abroad. Rangarajan died in 2007 and was, in addition to his position in
The Hindu
, an international dog judge and film producer.
See also
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References
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- ^
"Padma Awards"
(PDF)
. Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Archived from
the original
(PDF)
on 15 October 2015
. Retrieved
21 July
2015
.
- ^
Manavalan, A. A. (2010).
A Compendium of
Tirukkural
Translations in English (4 vols.)
. Chennai: Central Institute of Classical Tamil. p. xxxi.
ISBN
978-81-908000-2-0
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Further reading
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- V. K. Narasimhan (1969).
Kasturi Srinivasan
. Popular Prakashan.
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