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The Marwaris Who Publish India's Newspapers
Proprietors named by Forbes India among the Marwari families running India's leading newspaper groups, listed alphabetically. Seed content — AI-drafted prose, to be replaced by the maintainer. Citations are real.
Forbes India's 2014 Marwari Power survey named five proprietors among the Marwari families running India's leading newspaper groups: Indu Jain of Bennett Coleman, Mahendra Mohan Gupta of Jagran Prakashan, Shobhana Bhartia of HT Media, Subhash Chandra of the Essel Group, and Viveck Goenka of The Indian Express.
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Named as heading Bennett Coleman, publisher of what the cited source calls the world's most-read English newspaper.
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Named for Jagran Prakashan, publisher of what the cited source calls the world's most-read newspaper.
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The Bhartia of HT Media in the cited sentence. The same article records her saying of her father KK Birla that he did not treat the newspaper as a business proposition.
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Named as the television proprietor who also published the English daily DNA.
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Named as heading the Indian Express, which the cited source calls venerable.