Indian businessman

Samir Jain (born 11 March 1954) is an Indian publisher and the current Vice-Chairman of media group Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd.. Jain belongs to the Sahu Jain family which owns Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd., the parent company of The Times of India and other large newspapers.

Contents

• 1 Background
• 2 Career
• 3 References
• 4 Further reading
• 5 External links

Background

Samir Jain was born on the 11th March 1954 to Ashok *ar and Indu Jain. He belongs to the important industrial family of Sahu Jain which owns the Times group. He earned his Bachelors in Arts from the prestigious St. Stephen’s College, Delhi.

Career

In 1975 Samir joined the family-owned Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. as a junior executive. By 1982, Samir was vice-chairman and running the company as his father Ashok Jain, pursued by charges of fraud and suffering from a weak heart, departed to the United States for medical treatment. During Samir's time, Times of India has become the largest circulating English newspaper in the world.

References

Further reading

• Auletta, Ken: "Citizens Jain – Why India's Newspaper Industry is Thriving". The New Yorker, 8 October 2012, Pages 52 to 61.
• Subramanian, Samanth:: "Supreme Being:: How Samir Jain created the modern Indian Newspaper Industry", Caravan Magazine, 1 December 2012.
• Menon Malhan, Sangita P, "The TOI Story: How a Newspaper Changed the Rules of the Game" (2013) HarperCollins India

External links

• Indiatimes Times of India