Siddharth Varadarajan quits as Editior-in-Chief of the Hindu

Siddharth Varadarajan, Editor-in-Chief of The Hindu, announced his resignation from the newspaper on Twitter, after about two years after he took over the reins from N Ram as the first professional editor of The Hindu.

This is what he tweeted: "With The Hindu's owners deciding to revert to being a family run and edited newspaper, I am resigning from The Hindu with immediate effect."