Hindustan Standard

Hindustan Standard was an English-language daily published from Kolkata by the ABP Group.[1] It was headquartered at 3, Burman Street, Kolkata. In 1937, Suresh Chandra Majumdar started the daily in English,[2] and it soon became a leading newspaper owned by Indians in Kolkata, competing with British-owned The Statesman, along with its Bengali language sister-publication Ananda Bazaar Patrika.[3] The Delhi edition was started in 1951, and finally the newspaper stopped publication in 1982. Ashwini Kumar Gupta, an ex freedom fighter and the father of the McKinsey and Galleon group finance wizard Rajat Gupta was one of the first correspondents at the Delhi office of Hindustan Standard.[4]

The magazine The Sunday started as the weekend supplement with the newspaper, and was made a stand-alone magazine in 1976 by Aveek Sarkar, with MJ Akbar as the editor.[1]

References
  1. Bhandare, Namita (21 May 2011). "70's: The decade of innocence". Hindustan Times. Archived from the original on 26 May 2011. Retrieved 2 June 2011.
  2. "starting of Hindustan Standard" (PDF). Pabitra Kumar Mukherji. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 June 2012. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
  3. Rajan, Nalini (2005). Practising Journalism: Values, Constraints, Implications. SAGE. p. 20. ISBN 0761933794.
  4. Raghavan, Anita (4 June 2013). The Billionaire's Apprentice: The Rise of The Indian-American Elite and The Fall of The Galleon Hedge Fund (1st ed.). New York: Business Plus. ISBN 1455504025.


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