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Key facts
- Type
- Daily newspaper
- Format
- Broadsheet
- Owners
- The Hindu Group Kasturi and Sons Limited , Kasturi family
- Founder s
- G. Subramania Iyer , Nyapathi Subba Rao Pantulu , M. Veeraraghavachariar
- Publisher
- Nirmala Lakshman
- Editor
- Suresh Nambath
- Founded
- 20 September 1878 ; 147 years ago ( 1878-09-20 )
- Political alignment
- Centre-left Secular Social liberal
- Language
- English
- Headquarters
- Chennai , Tamil Nadu, India
- Country
- India
- Circulation
- 1,400,000 daily (as of August 2025)
- Price
- ₹ 12 (13¢ US) (weekdays) ₹ 15 (16¢ US) (weekends)
- Issn
- 0971-751X
- Website
- thehindu.com
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Encyclopedic overview
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. It is one of the Indian newspapers of record. As of March 2018, The Hindu is published from 21 locations across 11 states of India.
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 (locally referred to as "The Hindu Family"), who serve as the directors of the holding company.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Hindu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.