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Narasimhan Murali (born 10 May 1946) is currently Director of The Hindu Group Publishing Private Limited that publishes The Hindu and other allied publications. He is also the Director of the holding company, Kasturi and Sons limited.

Career

In a career spanning over four decades Murali handled all non-editorial and business functions focussing on finance, advertisement, circulation, administration and other commercial aspects. Posts held in Newspaper and Media Industry bodies: President of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS) - (1983–84) Chairman, Council of Management, Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) (1996–97); chairman, National Readership Studies Council (NRSC) (1998-2000); chairman, Board of Governors, Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) (2003–04) ) Elected as first board member from South Asia of IFRA, Darmstadt, Germany (the world's leading association for media publishing) (1998-2004); Member of the Board of World Association of Newspapers(WAN), Paris (2005–06) Chairman, Board of Trustees of Press Institute of India – RIND (May 2003-Sept.2010). Conferred "Distinguished Service Award" by the Advertising Club Chennai in 1995 for contribution to Advertising.

Other interests

Trustee of The Music Academy, Madras (up to 6 November 2005); Currently, President of The Music Academy, Madras, (from November 2005)in Chennai He has held administrative positions as chairman, Finance Committee and a vice-president of the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association President, Tamil Nadu Tennis Association, (1994–96) Trustee, Media Development Foundation, Chennai; Member of the Board of Governors of Thiagarajar School of Management (Affiliated to Madurai Kamaraj University), Madurai, Tamil Nadu.

Personal life

Murali is married to Tara, an architect. They have two children.

References

1. Ramnath, N.S.; Jayashankar, Mitu (26 August 2011). "N Murali: I Have Not Known Life Except In The Hindu". Forbes India. Retrieved 30 May 2018.
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4. "Ad Club confers distinguished service award on CavinKare CMD - MARKETING". The Hindu BusinessLine. 11 November 2004. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
5. "N. Murali re-elected Music Academy president". The Hindu. 1 July 2008. Archived from the original on 4 July 2008. Retrieved 8 April 2013.
6. "The Hindu : Tamil Nadu Tennis Association - 75 years old and still young". www.thehindu.com. Archived from the original on 8 April 2015. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
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8. "Thiagarajar School of Management - About TSM - Board of Governors". Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 31 March 2015.

• Living people
• Businesspeople from Chennai
• The Hindu Group
• Indian mass media owners
• Indian publishers (people)
• Newspaper executives
• 1946 births