Gopalan Kasturi (17 December 1924 – 21 September 2012) was an Indian journalist who served as the Editor of ''

The Hindu ''The Hindu'' is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It began as a weekly in 1878 and became a daily in 1889. It is one of the Indian newspapers of record and the sec ...

'' from 1965 to 1991. He was a grandson of S. Kasturi Rangya Iyengar, the patriarch of the family that owns ''The Hindu''. Kasturi became the editor of the newspaper after the death of

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, who was an uncle. Kasturi was the longest serving editor of the newspaper.

Personal life

Kasturi was born in

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on 17 December 1924 to K. Gopalan and Ranganayaki. He was the grandson of

S. Kasturi Ranga Iyengar S. Kasturi Ranga Iyengar (15 December 1859 – 12 December 1923) was an Indian lawyer, Indian independence activist, politician and journalist who served as the managing director of ''The Hindu'' from 1 April 1905 till his death. Ancestry an ...

, the patriarch of the Kasturi family, who died a year before he was born. Kasturi graduated from the Presidency College, Madras and joined ''The Hindu'', the family newspaper. Kasturi married Kamala and has two sons and a daughter -

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, K. Venugopal and Lakshmi Srinath. Kasturi's elder brother,

G. Narasimhan Gopalan Narasimhan (28 February 1916 – 5 July 1977) was an Indian journalist and entrepreneur who served as the Managing Director of ''The Hindu'' from 1959 until his death in 1977. He was a grandson of S. Kasturi Ranga Iyengar, the patriarch ...

, served as Managing-Director of ''The Hindu'' from 1959 to 1977.

Editorship

Kasturi became the Editor of ''The Hindu'' in 1965 on the early death of its editor,

. Kasturi served as its editor from 1965 to 1991. Kasturi retired in 1991 and was succeeded by

N. Ravi Narasimhan Ravi is an Indian journalist and the current Director of Kasturi & Sons Ltd. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of ''The Hindu'' from 1991 to 2003 and then again took over the position in October 2013. Early life and education Ravi ...

Death

Kasturi died on 21 September 2012 at the age of 88 at his home in Chennai. His death came a day after the 134th anniversary of the founding of The Hindu newspaper.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kasturi, G. 1924 births 2012 deaths Presidency College, Chennai alumni Writers from Chennai Indian newspaper editors The Hindu journalists Indian male journalists Journalists from Tamil Nadu 20th-century Indian journalists