Paramita Ghosh has been working as a journalist for over 20 years and writes socio-political and culture features. She works in the Weekend section as a senior assistant editor and has reported from Vienna, Jaffna and Singapore.
Articles by Paramita Ghosh
Get a peek into Delhi Durbar chronicles
Lilah Wingfield, 23, an Earl’s daughter arrived in Delhi in late November 1911 to attend the Royal Durbar to mark the shifting of the Capital of British India from Calcutta to Delhi.
Updated on Dec 01, 2011 12:11 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Hard drive
The Maruti agitation has brought the spotlight back on workers' rights. Can the scant disregard for working conditions by the auto industry put a blot on the India growth story? Paramita Ghosh writes. Autohub - behind the scenes|Labour pains
Updated on Oct 30, 2011 01:34 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Cool holidays
Savita Kohli, a senior manager with IBM, has just holidayed in Singapore with her husband and daughter. Her spending pattern - around Rs 1 lakh for a 5-day break in Goa to a under Rs 2 lakh 5-day holiday in Singapore - is typical of most upper middle-class to top-end travellers in India.
Updated on Oct 22, 2011 08:36 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
The social engine
A new lifeline Next year marks 10 years of the Delhi Metro. We look at how it has changed lives and bridged distances not just between places but also people.
Updated on Oct 01, 2011 10:56 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Aasheesh Sharma, Paramita Ghosh, Shalini Singh & Samar Khurshid, New Delhi
Bollywood and Tollywood to come together this Durga Puja
During Durga puja, most cultural secretaries of Puja committees all over Delhi are under pressure to do a 'twist'. Different from the African-American plantation dance of the '60s, this twist is a pressure to present Bengaliana with a difference - in idol-making, mandap decoration, programme presentation - but with one constant: the 'Kolkata team' (of artistes, that is).
Updated on Sep 30, 2011 10:57 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
A matter of chance
Kapil Das's mix of personal and 'public' photographs showcased at the '154 Neshvilla Road and other Stories' exhibition shows that chance has played its part. And alongwith that — his art. Paramita Ghosh reports.
Updated on Sep 23, 2011 11:22 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Sexist! boorish! misogynist! and this must change now
Disgraceful India is at the bottom of a survey on Asian women's presence at work; in another global survey it tops the list of stressed women. Our HT C-Fore survey says 57% men have more faith in a male boss. Signs of an emerging superpower in sync with the times? No, we are... Paramita Ghosh writes. HT C-fore survey | India’s sexist blacklist
Updated on Sep 18, 2011 12:26 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Smoke & Mirrors
Last night while watching another re-run of Zhang Yimou’s brilliant visuals in the film Curse of the Golden Flower, I was struck by how much he loved his country. China in his films is a photographic spectacle, a land ruled by strong, stable hands, a mighty army — and spoilsport rebels.
Updated on Aug 13, 2011 12:51 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Valley of metaphors
Stone-throwing as a means of protest grabbed headlines, but young Kashmiris are now using the arts to express their anguish like never before.
Updated on Jan 24, 2012 07:55 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Internal affairs
If you want the truth about the new trend in Confessional Literature in India, don't mention the C word and it will be fine. "A confession has Biblical connotations. Paramita Ghosh writes. What’s cooking in memoirs
Updated on Jun 26, 2011 02:09 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Nowhere to go
The drifters: On World Refugee Day, HT asked migrants from all over the world on what keeps them going in India without any fixed address, choice employment and lack of acceptance. Paramita Ghosh and Shubhi Vijay report.
Updated on Jun 20, 2011 01:30 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh and Shubhi Vijay, New Delhi
Cool holidays
For most Delhiites, summer vacations are like epic journeys. Most of their queries, say experts — once they get the shopping Q & A out of the way — are about health and safety. Paramita Ghosh writes.
Updated on May 07, 2011 01:56 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Shall we dance?
Fernando Aguilera, instructor with the IFBC Ballet Company, Delhi, calls Black Swan a horror film. And it’s easy to see why.
Updated on Apr 15, 2011 10:40 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Songs sung true
If Purnadas Baul is the grand old man of Bengal’s bauls, Parvathy Baul is the modern-day icon, a singer of soul.
Updated on Apr 09, 2011 12:05 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Coming home to school
In works of art, contexts are important and so is the treatment. Dileep Prakash’s work on Anglo-Indians (2004-2006) gave us the measure of his ‘gaze.’
Updated on Apr 01, 2011 11:08 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Living, loving in Guyana
On Guyana's streets, you encounter continents. Nationalities, religions and races jostle for space: Chinese, Portuguese, Negroes and a lot of moody Indians. Paramita Ghosh writes.
Updated on Mar 25, 2011 11:37 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
A photo finish
The growing space for stylised photography in Delhi galleries means it is now being exhibited and collected as art — on par with other art forms.
Updated on Mar 04, 2011 09:16 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Write moves
If roughly 30,000 words make a novel, at least 3,60,000 are crying, daily, for attention at the Rupa office in Daryaganj.
Updated on Feb 27, 2011 02:24 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
City limits
The future of the city is the suburb and photographers have seen it.
Updated on Feb 12, 2011 12:36 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
America’s Homai Vyarawalla
Wisdom from an expert: to do the work of the National Geographic, it helps if you look like somebody’s mother. And Annie Griffiths, America’s Homai Vyarawalla, or, at least, one of the first ladies at the Geographic, ‘styled’ herself accordingly, shooting people and cultures all over the world with empathy, a language understood between perfect strangers.
Updated on Feb 06, 2011 12:00 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
New-age learning on the upswing
Indian parents more or less have two requirements from schools — that their child comes home disciplined and be successful at examinations.
Updated on Feb 05, 2011 11:33 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Shalini Singh and Paramita Ghosh
Shutter down
National Reflex 2000 — the story of an aborted camera.
Updated on Dec 31, 2010 10:01 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Taking the long view of the past
NS Madhavan’s debut novel deals with history but it’s not historical.
Updated on Dec 31, 2010 09:53 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
The accidental historian
Richard Eaton, liberal India's favourite Western scholar - in town for the first time after the Ayodhya verdict - on Islam, Hinduism, and why historians became 'servants of politics'. Paramita Ghosh writes.
Updated on Dec 05, 2010 12:20 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Birth of art
If art is experiential, here are some artists who are celebrating femininity on canvas.
Updated on Nov 27, 2010 09:56 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Authors, filmmakers defend writers’ freedom
Snake race visuals on flat screens near the stage. Writer Vikram Seth on stage talking of his first book and previous one. Actor Mammootty in pin stripes and dark glasses.
Updated on Nov 14, 2010 01:04 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, Thiruvananthapuram
Made in India
In the 19th century, the British began growing tea in India. A connnoisseur captures the brew's potted history.
Updated on Nov 13, 2010 12:45 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Making Hay while the Kerala sun shines
In 1992, Mario Vargas Llosa, who won the Nobel for literature this year, was circling the English countryside in a chopper waiting for cricketers to finish the over before landing on the edge of the pitch.
Updated on Nov 06, 2010 09:41 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
A question of identity
Eight different artists with eight different media have mounted a critique of the Aadhaar project that aims to launch a unique identification (UID) card by 2011.
Updated on Oct 30, 2010 09:09 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Puja 2010: modest
Strapped for cash and concerned about security, Durga Puja is a low key affair in the city.
Updated on Oct 15, 2010 09:52 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi