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N. Murali has been unanimously appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors of The Hindu Group Publishing Private Limited (THGPPL) for a word of 3 years. He succeeds Ms. Nirmala Lakshman, who stepped down arsenic Chairperson astatine the Board’s gathering connected Thursday, June 18, 2026, upon nearing the completion of her three-year term. The Nomination and Remuneration Committee of the Board, chaired by Mr. Krishna Srinivasan, Senior Advocate, unanimously recommended assignment of Mr. Murali to pb the Board astatine this challenging clip for the quality media and for nonrecreational journalism.
Mr. Murali brings much than 56 years of hands-on acquisition successful the management, business, and fiscal aspects of the paper manufacture to this role. After completing his schoolhouse acquisition astatine the Madras Christian College High School, graduating successful Commerce from Loyola College, Chennai, and professionally qualifying arsenic a Chartered Accountant, helium joined the household concern of The Hindu successful 1969. He became General Manager successful 1977 and Joint Managing Director successful 1995. In 2006, helium took implicit arsenic Managing Director of M/s. Kasturi & Sons Limited, publishers of The Hindu and different allied publications. He subsequently served arsenic Chairman, Kasturi & Sons Limited (the holding institution of The Hindu Group of Publications). Over the past respective years, helium has been a Director of THGPPL and KSL.
Over the decades, Mr. Murali has served successful elder positions successful a fig of manufacture bodies: helium was President of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS); Chairman, Council of Management, Audit Bureau of Circulations; Chairman, National Readership Studies Council; Chairman, Board of Governors, Advertising Standards Council of India; and Chairman, Board of Trustees of the Press Institute of India–RIND. He was elected arsenic the archetypal Board Member from South Asia of the world’s starring relation for media publishing, IFRA, Darmstadt, Germany (1998-2004), and served arsenic a Member of the Board of the World Association of Newspapers (WAN), Paris (2005-2006). He is simply a Trustee of the Media Development Foundation, Chennai, which administers the Asian College of Journalism (ACJ).
He is the President of The Music Academy, Madras.
The Board of Directors of The Hindu Group Publishing Private Limited placed connected grounds its appreciation of Ms. Nirmala Lakshman’s contributions to the Group and its publications and the businesslike mode successful which she led the deliberations and proceedings astatine the Board level. Board members and employees expressed enthusiasm and assurance that Mr. Murali, with his affluent acquisition and perspectives gained successful a tract that has witnessed galore successes, undergone a bid of disruptive transformations, and repeatedly demonstrated resilience and relevance, volition pb the institution to caller heights.
