Forty seven years ago, in 1975, Madhu Trehan founded India Today magazine, although her father Vidya Vilas Purie had originally envisioned it as a tabloid. Trehan had returned from the United States, where she studied journalism at Columbia University and worked with the UN and India Abroad, among other organisations.
While Trehan shepherded the team as founding editor, her elder brother Aroon Purie looked at the business side of things. This heralded the birth of the India Today Group, or ITG, now a media behemoth encompassing TV, radio, digital media, and more.
