Kasturi Srinivasan (7 August 1887 – 21 June 1959) was an Indian journalist and businessman. He was the eldest son 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 ...

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Srinivasan was born to well-known lawyer and journalist,

, 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 sec ...

'', 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 Srinivasa Raghavaiyangar Rangaswami Iyengar (6 January 1887 – 23 October 1926) was an Indian lawyer and journalist who served as the editor of ''The Hindu'' from 1923 till his own death in 1926. He was the son of S. Srinivasa Raghavaiyangar a ...

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 a ...

and was awarded the

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in January 1956. In 1969, he translated the entire work of the ''

Tirukkural The ''Tirukkuṟaḷ'' ( ta, திருக்குறள், lit=sacred verses), or shortly the ''Kural'' ( ta, குறள்), is a classic Tamil language text consisting of 1,330 short couplets, or kurals, of seven words each. The tex ...

'' 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.

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