Hindustan Standard

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Hindustan Standard is an English-language daily published from Kolkata by the ABP Group.{{cite news |title=70's: The decade of innocence |last=Bhandare |first=Namita |url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/70-s-The-decade-of-innocence/Article1-700294.aspx |newspaper=Hindustan Times |date=21 May 2011 |access-date=2 June 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110526150611/http://www.hindustantimes.com/70-s-The-decade-of-innocence/Article1-700294.aspx |archive-date=26 May 2011 }} It is headquartered at 3, Burman Street, Kolkata. In 1937, Suresh Chandra Majumdar started the daily in English,{{cite web|title=starting of Hindustan Standard|url=http://www.mediamimansa.com/11th%20issue/11eng_92-96.pdf|publisher=Pabitra Kumar Mukherji|access-date=13 March 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120611210422/http://www.mediamimansa.com/11th%20issue/11eng_92-96.pdf|archive-date=11 June 2012|url-status=dead}} 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.{{cite book |title=Practising Journalism: Values, Constraints, Implications |first=Nalini | last=Rajan|publisher=SAGE|year=2005|isbn=0761933794 |page=20 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6sEvQI5gcpsC&q=%22hindustan+standard%22+newspaper&pg=PA20 }} The Delhi edition is started in 1915. Ashwini Kumar Gupta, an ex freedom fighter and the father of the McKinsey and Galleon group finance wizard Rajat Gupta is one of the first correspondents at the Delhi office of Hindustan Standard.{{cite book |last1=Raghavan |first1=Anita |title=The Billionaire's Apprentice: The Rise of The Indian-American Elite and The Fall of The Galleon Hedge Fund |date=4 June 2013 |publisher=Business Plus |location=New York |isbn=978-1455504022 |edition=1st}}

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.