The Hindu was founded in Madras on 20 September 1878 as a weekly by the Triplicane Six, two teachers and four law students. It became a daily on 1 April 1889,…
Two teachers and four law students, the Triplicane Six, launched The Hindu on 20 September 1878 as an eight-page weekly with one rupee and twelve annas, to back T. Muthu…
The paper went tri-weekly in 1883, set up its own National Press that December, and became an evening daily on 1 April 1889.
With circulation down to about 800 after the founders split, the paper's legal adviser S. Kasturi Ranga Iyengar bought it for Rs 75,000 on 1 April 1905. His family still…
A rotary press printing 30,000 copies of 24 pages arrived in 1921. By 1923 circulation had reached 17,000, and Gandhi visited the office on 23 March.
After moving into Kasturi Buildings in 1939 with India's first in-office teleprinter line, The Hindu became a morning daily on 7 November 1940 to carry late war news.
The Hindu began flying copies in 1947 and in 1963 acquired an aircraft of its own for early-morning deliveries.
On 27 July 1969 a Coimbatore edition was printed from pages sent by facsimile from Madras. Bangalore followed in 1970, and satellite pages reached Delhi in 1986.
From 1987 The Hindu published documents on secret Bofors payments into Swiss accounts, in reporting led by Chitra Subramaniam and N. Ram.
The Hindu was among India's first papers on the internet: 1995 by Wikipedia's account, June 1996 by the group's own chronology. E-paper followed in 2006.
The group launched a Tamil daily, now Hindu Tamil Thisai, and its first apps in 2013, the year family members took back the editor's chair. A paywall followed in 2019.
The group lists 21 printing centres, about 1.4 million copies circulated and 35 million unique visitors across its websites.
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