Tuesday 22 October 2013

Siddharth Varadarajan steps down as Editor of The Hindu

In a major development hinting at an internal feud, The Hindu editor Siddharth Varadarajan has resigned from his post in the English newspaper with immediate effect. Announcing the decision on Twitter this evening, Varadarajan posted: “With The Hindu’s owners deciding to revert to being a family run and edited newspaper, I am resigning from The Hindu with immediate effect.” Earlier in May 2011, the shareholders of Kasturi and Sons Ltd. voted to appoint Varadarajan as The Hindu’s Editor on the recommendation of the company’s board. He then became the first professional editor of the newspaper in its 135-year history. Unlike the other members in the senior management positions, Varadarajan was an employee not related to the family. In the same board meeting which took the decision to appoint him, it was also decided that N Ram, the then Editor-in-Chief, would step down along with four others on the board, including N. Ravi as editor, Malini Parthasarathy as executive editor and Nirmala Lakshman as joint editor. N. Murali, the managing director of the newspaper, also retired from the publication in August that year. Prior to Varadarajan, only members from the promoter family held the post of the Editor in the newspaper. Varadarajan had joined The Hindu as deputy editor in 2004. 

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