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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://www.webcitation.org/6U68ulwpb?url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 November 2014 }}</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 shorty 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.

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