The Hindu is an English-language (English language) Indian daily newspaper. With a circulation of 1.45 million, The Hindu is the second-largest circulated daily English newspaper in India after Times of India, and slightly ahead of The Economic Times. According to the Indian Readership Survey (IRS) 2008 The Hindu is the third most-widely read English newspaper in India (after Times of India and Hindustan Times) with a readership of 5.2 million. It has its largest base of circulation (Newspaper circulation) in South India, especially Tamil Nadu. Headquartered at Chennai (formerly called Madras), The Hindu was published weekly when it was launched in 1878, and started publishing daily in 1889.

The Hindu became, in 1995, the first Indian newspaper to offer an online edition.cite web author=N. Murali url= title=Core values and high quality standards work=The Hindu date=13 September 2003 accessdate=2006-04-20

The Hindu is published from 13 locations ? Bangalore, Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi, Hyderabad (Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh), Kochi (Kochi (India)), Kolkata, Madurai, Mangalore, Thiruvananthapuram, Tiruchirapalli, Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam.