Swaminathan Gurumurthy
| S. Gurumurthy | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Indian |
| Occupation | Chartered Accountant, Columnist, Political and Economics Analyst |
Swaminathan Gurumurthy (Tamil: சுவாமிநாதன் குருமூர்த்தி) is a journalist and chartered accountant in India. He is the co-convenor of the Swadeshi Jagaran Manch, an organization for promoting awareness of the Swadeshi Movement, an Indian tradition well-known in the pre-Independence era.
He is a strong proponent of traditional Indian economic wisdom. He is an active dissenter against economic liberalism.
He has been appointed as an editor of the famous political analysis magazine Thuglak, post the demise of its editor "Cho. Ramasamy" on 7th December 2016.
Gurumurthy was born in Panampet near Villupuram, a small village 160 kilometres south of Chennai. He had his schooling locally and pursued his higher education at the Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda College in Chennai. Unable to realize his dream to study law, he chose instead to become a chartered accountant. After completing the course in 1972, he joined an auditing firm and was allotted the job of auditing some of the companies of the so-called "press baron" Ramnath Goenka.
He was unhappy with the aggressive corporate "empire building" by Dhirubhai Ambani and believed Ambani's business practices were unhealthy for the nation. Goenka entrusted Gurumurthy with fighting Reliance Industries. Gurumurthy's articles in The Indian Express created stirs in the corporate world as they made publicly denounced a culture of corruption within the troubled conglomerate. Gurumurthy's articles are highly-regarded in certain circles of Indian political thought and are, more generally, perceived to be well-research and based on extensive study. Gurumurthy's articles made revelatory claims concerning many of the financial irregularities that the Reliance Group of Companies has been widely accused of having committed. One such article, co-authored with Arun Shourie, claimed that Reliance was operating an entire plant with machines that were actually imported as spare parts, paying lower customs duty and doubling its production.India Today magazine ranked him #30th in India's 50 Most powerful people of 2017 list.
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