K. Gopalan

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Kasturi Gopalan (8 November 1890 – 9 December 1974) was an Indian publisher who started Kasturi & Sons, the company that publishes The Hindu. He was born in Coimbatore to S. Kasturi Ranga Iyengar, a lawyer from Kumbakonam, and came from a respected Vaishnavite Brahmin family in the Tanjore district. He was the younger son; his elder brother was K. Srinivasan. While Srinivasan and other family members edited The Hindu, Gopalan founded Kasturi & Sons and published The Hindu as well as magazines like Sport and Pastime, Frontline, and Indian Cricket, the annual cricket yearbook. He died in Madras in 1974 at age 84 after more than 50 years as a publisher. He was married to Ranganayaki and had two sons, G. Narasimhan and G. Kasturi, who later served on The Hindu’s board.