Kasturi Srinivasan: Difference between revisions - Wikipedia

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| occupation = journalist

| spouse = Komala Valli

| children = S.Radha ,<br>S.ChampakavalliSembagavalli,<br> S.Parthasarathy, <br>[[S. Rangarajan]]

| awards = [[Padma Bhushan]] {{small|(1956)}}

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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.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2015 |access-date=21 July 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://wwwweb.webcitationarchive.org/6U68ulwpb?url=web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 NovemberOctober 20142015 }}</ref> In 1969, he translated the entire work of the ''[[Tirukkural]]'' into English in verse form.<ref name="Manavalan_2010">{{cite book|last1=Manavalan|first1=A. A. |title=A Compendium of ''Tirukkural'' Translations in English (4 vols.) |year=2010|publisher=Central Institute of Classical Tamil|location=Chennai|page=xxxi|isbn=978-81-908000-2-0}}</ref>

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 shortyshortly 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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{{Reflist}}

* {{cite news|title=This Day That Age: dated June 22, 1959 K. Srinivasan passes away|url=http://www.hindu.com/2009/06/22/stories/2009062250861200.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090626025104/http://www.hindu.com/2009/06/22/stories/2009062250861200.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=26 June 2009|work=[[The Hindu]]|date=22 June 2009}}

== Further reading ==

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[[Category:Indian male journalists]]

[[Category:The Hindu journalists]]

[[Category:MassBusinesspeople mediain industrymass businesspeoplemedia]]

[[Category:20th-century Indian journalists]]

[[Category:20th-century Indian businesspeople]]

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[[Category:Tamil–English translators]]

[[Category:20th-century translators]]

[[Category:Members of the 10th Tamil Nadu LegislativeMLAs Assembly1991–1996]]

[[Category:Translators of the Tirukkural into English]]

[[Category:Tirukkural translators]]