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Coup in The Hindu means more than a family feud
[TamilNet, Friday, 26 March 2010, 19:35 GMT]
Battle for control breaks out in The Hindu, very divided family,
reported Indian Express Thursday. At the heart of this battle is the
proposed retirement of publisher and the group Editor-in-Chief N Ram
and his decision to dig his heels in. According to people close to the
developments, the board is split, one group supporting Ram and the
other seeking his retirement, Indian Express reported further. In the
corporate dictated scenario of polity in India, the coup means more
than a family feud – a panic in the Indian corporate world over a
failed course and scurried attempts to revise it, political observers
said. Similar tensions are noticed in recent times in India’s External
Affairs and Home establishments too, the observers further said.

Meanwhile, The Hindu in a statement in its website said that Mr. Ram
will file a ‘criminal and civil’ defamation suit against The Indian
Express and the Financial Express for the publication of the highly
defamatory material.

But the Express Group stood by its report and published the full text of a correspondence it had with Mr. Ram on the issue.

N. Ram, awarded ‘Sri Lanka Ratna’ by Chandrika government is known for
his anti Eezham Tamil independence stand and for his support to Mahinda
Rajapaksa regime. He dragged The Hindu into this line for well over a
decade, Tamil Nadu media circles said.

Ram’s Hindu played a major role in translating the desertion of Karuna
from the LTTE into a politico-military machination beneficial to
Colombo and New Delhi.

Even after the war ended in Vanni, Ram’s continued support to genocidal
Colombo and opposition to Tamil independence signify larger agenda,
commented academic circles in Chennai.

Mr. Ram was also accused of playing China’s agent in India by Tibetan organizations.

Even though many conservative sections in India believe that Ram is an
anti-Hindu leftist spoiled The Hindu, others view him a pseudo Marxist.

According to Indian Express citing insiders, The Hindu’s board had
decided to set 65 as the retirement age for the board members and Ram
was identified as the first member to step down this May.

It was also decided that after Ram’s retirement, Ravi would take over
as Editor-in-Chief of the group while Malini Parthasarathy would be
appointed the editor of The Hindu and Venugopal the editor of The Hindu
Business Line, but Ram is said to have declined to give up the
positions he holds across the company, including the board membership,
Indian Express said, citing inside sources.

Ram responded saying, “No retirement age has been stipulated for
directors or the editor-in-chief or editor etc. No retirement age is
stipulated in the Memorandum and Articles of Association of the
Company.”

In February Ram recruited two of his family members, his daughter Vidya
Ram as European correspondent of The Hindu Business Line and Dr.
Narayan Lakshman as Washington correspondent of The Hindu.

The 132 years old The Hindu is published by Kasturi & Sons Ltd, the
board of directors of which has 12 members, descending from four
cousins — G Narasimhan (father of N Ram, N Ravi, N Murali); S
Parthasarathy (father of Malini Parthasarathy, Nirmala Lakshman and
Nalini Krishnan); S Rangarajan (father of Ramesh Rangarajan, Vijaya
Arun and Akila Iyengar) and G Kasturi (father of K Balaji, K Venugopal
and Lakshmi Srinath).