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
Woman on top
Through her array of women characters, theatre director Amal Allana has constantly tried to find herself.
Updated on Oct 08, 2010 09:18 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
All for the love of food
Streetfood connoisseur Bobby Chinn checked out the most expensive shopping street in India. A conversation with Paramita Ghosh.
Updated on Oct 02, 2010 10:39 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
The eternal feminist
Art Heritage is showcasing the new works of 86-year-old painter-thinker-teacher, K.G. Subramanyan, a student of the ‘Shantiniketan school’ of Nandalal Bose, Benode Behari Mukherjee and Ram Kinker, who retired as professor in painting of Visva Bharati.
Updated on Sep 17, 2010 11:28 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
King of Creeps
Ramsay knows the trick of surviving outside the mainstream. For years he has had to contend with Bollywood. And then Hollywood. He built the Ramsay identity with the help of taboos that major Indian studios had built around themselves — if only to confirm them, writes Paramita Ghosh.
Updated on Sep 11, 2010 10:50 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
A hit and run artist
For a graffiti artist, who has practised the art of hit (with a spray can) and run (with his paints), Xenz aka Graeme Brusby has come a long way. Paramita Ghosh writes.
Updated on Sep 10, 2010 10:42 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Waiting for Godard
If there are a few things I've understood about French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, he'll refuse the honorary Oscar the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is keen to give him this November. The Academy has been trying to reach the 79-year-old auteur since last fortnight without success.
Updated on Sep 06, 2010 09:52 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Clicked: two of each
Marriage to a Patel, may have opened the doors to homes with twins, but for the 53-year-old photographer Ketaki Sheth, it all began with a statistic.
Updated on Aug 27, 2010 10:27 PM IST
HindustanTimes.com | Paramita Ghosh
Your memory versus mine
Not all of our independence struggle was non-violent. We go back to four places to revisit their bloodied history.
Updated on Aug 14, 2010 09:44 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Soak inculture
A group show of six young artists, Jignasha Ojha, Kartik Sood, Meghansh Thapa, Sonam Jain, Uma Shankar Pathak and Vipul Prajapati, cut across a variety of themes and issues that make us the urban Indian question the certainties of our lives.
Updated on Aug 25, 2010 06:33 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, HT Correspondent
Find Outers
Art has to be lively, engaging and promote a new way of seeing. Four artists from Vadodara's famous art school take us along in its search.
Updated on Jul 16, 2010 11:03 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Toy story
New money is changing the old house of stories. Its future may lie in the hands of a fictional square-headed bumpkin writes Paramita Ghosh.
Updated on Jul 10, 2010 11:12 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Kitsch and tell
Long before Beatrix Kiddo, there was Karate Kavita. And like all good Amazons, our girl — like Uma Thurman in Kill Bill — wore tight pants. She had muscle power, brains and breasts.
Updated on Jul 02, 2010 10:33 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Live at Sing City
Avant-garde is Singapore’s new business model. An arts fest vouched for that, writes Paramita Ghosh.
Updated on Jun 19, 2010 09:26 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Penguin boss was 'asked to leave' over sex scandal
A major scandal is rocking the publishing industry. Penguin Canada CEO David Davidar, who earlier headed Penguin India, announced his resignation on June 8 saying he wished to return to India and concentrate on writing.
Updated on Jun 13, 2010 12:23 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, Guwahati
Of sorbets and flower power
If you can brave the sun for two Sunday afternoons, drop by at Red Earth run by art entrepreneur Himanshu Verma.
Updated on May 28, 2010 10:23 PM IST
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All on canvas
Amrita Sher-Gil, painter-critic-woman, had an interesting back-story. It seems to have been decided by her father Umrao Singh and mother Marie Antoinette’s move from Hungary in 1921 to Simla rather than Lahore, writes Paramita Ghosh.
Updated on May 22, 2010 01:38 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Indian idols
Photographer Mahesh Bhat’s idea for his project, ‘Unsung,’ began from home. He had lost his niece to TV; she had become a fan.
Updated on May 15, 2010 12:35 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Marry right or die
Last week, the khap panchayats of Haryana got a breather. The honour killing headline came from Jharkhand. So, they unveiled their secret weapon — Santosh Dahiya, a physical education teacher, who, for the first time in the history of the Sarvjatiya Sarvkhap Mahapanchayat, will put together a women’s wing as its president.
Updated on May 08, 2010 11:43 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
An artist and a Gandhian
From 1944-1962, potter-painter-photographer Devi Prasad taught art at the Gandhi ashram, Sevagram. Around 300 exhibits are being mounted in an exhibition today.
Updated on Apr 30, 2010 11:45 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Blow up
A sneak peek at pictures from master photographer Steve McCurry’s book in the making. Paramita Ghosh reports.
Updated on May 02, 2010 06:45 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Inside the closet
All's not well at Aligarh Muslim University. And the death of a gay professor has raised some difficult questions, writes Paramita Ghosh.
Updated on Apr 17, 2010 11:11 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, Aligarh
The man who takes sides
Cartoonist-reporter Joe Sacco tells Paramita Ghosh the difficulties of gathering memories and why it's so important to 'remember' Palestine.
Updated on Apr 16, 2010 11:29 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
The man who takes sides
Cartoonist-reporter Joe Sacco tells Paramita Ghosh the difficulties of gathering memories and why it’s so important to ‘remember’ Palestine. Read the full interview.
Updated on Apr 16, 2010 06:51 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
The reluctant litterateur
Late afternoon this Saturday, at the India International Centre, Mark Collins, director of the Commonwealth Foundation, chaired a session of the 2010 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize on a cheery and self-deprecatory note.
Updated on Apr 10, 2010 11:53 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Mixed doubles
In Rahab Allana's diptychs, the world changes momentarily and new relationships are formed between time and space, light and shade, people and monuments, says Paramita Ghosh.
Updated on Apr 10, 2010 12:13 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
The hungry artistes
Spirited Why can’t Muslim yogis sing of Hindu saints in Gorakhpur? Paramita Ghosh reports.
Updated on Apr 04, 2010 12:04 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Fusion of fashion and fun
Consider this. You go to bed after a heavy meal and begin to dream. A woman wafts through it. She’s dark and slim. You are aroused.
Updated on Apr 02, 2010 09:56 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Trouble in the land of Buddha
It’s men, monks and myths versus the Maitreya Project that aims to build the world’s largest statue of Buddha in Kushinagar — where Buddha died.
Updated on Mar 28, 2010 12:09 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
On display: Beauty of the beasts
Under a blue-tarpaulin sheet studio outside a two-room space, shared with his family in the eastern Madhya Pradesh village of Sonpuri, Sukhandi Vyam, has, since he was nine years old, been an artist. Commissioned by Wieden+Kennedy in collaboration with Navayana Publishing, his solo exhibition, says art historian John Bowles, is the first-ever ‘show' of Pardhan Gond sculptures, writes Paramita Ghosh.
Updated on Mar 26, 2010 10:31 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Artistes at ease
Raghu Rai’s encounter with famous musicians featured in his book, India’s great Masters, was rich, and, let’s say, challenging. Paramita Ghosh examines...
Updated on Mar 13, 2010 12:39 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh