Career
She replaced North.Ravi for the position of the Editor. She resigned from the post on January 5, 2016. Earlier she was the Executive Editor of The Hindu and is the Director of the The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy.
Subsequent to changes in Editorial & Business of "The Hindu" on 21 October 2013, Malini Parthasarathy has taken over as Editor of "The Hindu"
Malini Parthasarathy is the daughter of Srinivasan Parthasarathy the son of Kasthuri Srinivasan.
She is the great-granddaughter of Kasthuri Ranga Iyengar. She is now Director of The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy, a new public policy resource involving research and dialogue, under the auspices of Kasturi & Sons Limited, the publishers of The Hindu.
She is also a Wholetime Director and part-owner of Kasthuri & Sons Limited. Until July 20, 2011, she was Executive Editor, The Hindu.
She completed a Doctor of Philosophy in 2008 from the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
She has an M.S in Journalism from the Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts in history from Stella Maris College in Chennai.