Hindu misses Chennai print as floods wreak havoc

Dec 05, 2015 at 02:21 am by Staff


A couple of days after The Hindu launched a new edition for Mumbai, it was forced to abandon printing in Chennai when floodwater swept through the city in which its headquarters are located.

It was the first time in the newspaper's 137-year history that this has happened.

Instead, PDFs of the 22-page Tuesday edition were posted on the paper's website. It reported that "disruptions" around the printing facility near Chennai meant city editions and those for Puducherry and neighbouring districts could not be printed and distributed. The Hindu is published in 18 Indian cities.

BBC Hindi quoted publisher N Murali that Maraimalainagar township where the plant is located 30 km out of the city, was not accessible to workers: "Even if we had printed the paper, I doubt if it could have been distributed in the city," he said.

BBC Hindi said that while other city newspapers including the Times of India, the Deccan Chronicle and the New Indian Express were printed, it was not clear whether they had reached readers in the city.

Some 208 mm of rain fell on Tuesday, the second day of extreme rain, leading to water being discharged from a reservoir. Roads were flooded, trains cancelled and many flights diverted.

Right: The front page of the Chennai edition;

On our homepage: A flood rescue recorded by The Hindu

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