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'''''Hindustan Standard''''' is an [[English-language]] daily published from [[Kolkata]] by the [[ABP Group]].<ref name=ht>{{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 }}</ref> It is headquartered at 3, Burman Street, Kolkata. In 1937, Suresh Chandra Majumdar started the daily in English,<ref>{{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}}</ref> and it soon became a leading newspaper owned by Indians in Kolkata, competing with British-owned ''[[The Statesman (India)|The Statesman]]'', along with its Bengali language sister-publication ''[[Ananda Bazaar Patrika]]''.<ref>{{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 }}</ref> 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.<ref name="book1">{{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}}</ref><br />
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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.<ref name=ht/><br />
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