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Kasturi Ranga Iyengar acquires The Hindu

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Kasturi Ranga Iyengar acquires The Hindu
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S. Kasturi Ranga Iyengar bought The Hindu in 1905; it has remained with his family since.

In 1905 S. Kasturi Ranga Iyengar purchased The Hindu from its original founders, who had started it as a weekly in 1878. Since then it has been a family-owned newspaper. Members of his family have usually run the paper through roles in its editorial and business operations and on its board. The Hindu is today regarded as one of India's newspapers of record.

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