Rangaswami Parthasarathy, a journalist, retired as a Senior Assistant Editor of the Hindu, after serving the newspaper for 32 years. He wrote the history of the Hindu titled Hundred Years of the Hindu which was released during the centenary celebrations of the paper in 1978. He subsequently wrote Memoirs of a News Editor describing his experiences as a News Editor for the Hindu for over 12 years. He has also written three more books on journalism, Basic Journalism, Journalism in India and Here is the News: Reporting for the Media. Apostle of Love, Saint Saipadananda, which he wrote in 1981, is a biography of Sri Radhakrishna Swamiji, his guru, and a great devotee
of Sai Baba of Shirdi and a disciple of Sri Narasimha Swamiji. Parthasarathy has been the recipient of the N. Raghunatha Aiyer Memorial Award for Excellence in Journalism"