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
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 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 secon ...
'', 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
The Press Trust of India Ltd., commonly known as PTI, is the largest news agency in India. It is headquartered in New Delhi and is a nonprofit cooperative among more than 500 Indian newspapers. It has over 500 full-time employees , including abo ...
and was awarded the
Padma Bhushan in January 1956.
In 1969, he translated the entire work of the ''
Tirukkural'' into English in verse form.
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.
See also
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List of translators into English
References
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Further reading
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1887 births
1959 deaths
Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in literature & education
Presidency College, Chennai alumni
Indian male journalists
The Hindu journalists
Businesspeople in mass media
20th-century Indian journalists
20th-century Indian businesspeople
People from Thanjavur district
Businesspeople from Tamil Nadu
Journalists from Tamil Nadu
Tamil–English translators
20th-century translators
Tamil Nadu MLAs 1991–1996
Translators of the Tirukkural into English
Tirukkural translators