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
Old bird gives literary birthday treat
With snappy newsletters, an enterprising publicity department, book launches that seemed to have catered for a picnic and writers who were, for the first time in their lives, coaxed into being public speakers, Penguin India took desi publishing out of the crowded alleys of Daryaganj and into the limelight.
Updated on Mar 12, 2010 11:43 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
The flip side'
Martin Parr’s pictures show an England that’s rarely seen. And an India that’s very Britain-like, reports Paramita Ghosh.
Updated on Feb 26, 2010 09:57 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Gripe cine-fest
In Magic Lantern Foundation’s third outing, cinema of “persistence-resistance” will play at the India International Centre from 25-27 February, writes Paramita Ghosh.
Updated on Feb 19, 2010 09:36 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Aloo gobi gets a glam makeover
Bye-bye coq au vin, the aloo-gobi (potato-cauliflower) is here — and Indian food photographers are happily placing it before their lens.
Updated on Feb 14, 2010 12:48 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
‘I’ll design the sexiest hijab possible’
Suad Amiry uses humour and everyday experiences to talk about the Palestinian life, writes Paramita Ghosh.
Updated on Feb 13, 2010 01:05 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Rare works made in India
What’s special about Delhi Art Gallery’s fourth edition of ‘Manifestations,’ its bi-annual exhibition? It includes 75 works from 75 luminaries of 20th century Indian art.
Updated on Feb 05, 2010 11:02 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Without borders
The biggest show of Pakistani popular art packs a sharp sense of humour, writes Paramita Ghosh.
Updated on Jan 23, 2010 11:42 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Naya Theatre — the second generation
When Indian theatre’s controversial colossus Habib Tanvir died seven months ago, he put two of his closest associates in a spot: Ramchandra Singh, senior actor, gulped down his shyness and became the director of Naya Theatre. Paramita Ghosh reports.
Updated on Jan 16, 2010 11:02 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Women, in colour
Last year, Wonkie, a popular culture blog, rolled out an art-interpretation contest on an Anju Dodiya painting of Lord Shiva with a candle on his head. The responses swung from the high (“The artist is telling a story in adulthood while his alter ego is looking in upon his current struggle as an infant pining”) to the low (“Life is tough in India. Unfinished hairdo due to loadshedding”).
Updated on Jan 16, 2010 01:02 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Food, for thought
Last night, a bear came down the hills into the District Magistrate's office", said PD Pradhan, our guide in Gangtok, looking and sounding exactly as he did when we met him in the lobby of the Norbhughang Hotel two years ago -- a toothy, cherubic, middle-aged man with a fondness for bomber jackets and, with the right audience, a treasury of made-up local lore, writes Paramita Ghosh. Photo by AFP
Published on Jan 11, 2010 11:52 AM IST
Paramita Ghosh, Sikkim
Food, for thought
Last night, a bear came down the hills into the District Magistrate’s office”, said PD Pradhan, our guide in Gangtok, looking and sounding exactly as he did when we met him in the lobby of the Norbhughang Hotel two years ago — a toothy, cherubic, middle-aged man with a fondness for bomber jackets and, with the right audience, a treasury of made-up local lore, writes Paramita Ghosh.
Updated on Jan 09, 2010 11:22 PM IST
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The Elvis of Philosophy
Popstars used to dream of becoming Elvis. Philosophers in the 21st century dream of becoming Slavoj Zizek. The 60-year-old Slovenian intellectual, who also ran for his country’s presidency, has led a radical reappraisal of Marxist philosophy using extremely unconventional tools — humour, psychoanalysis and Hollywood.
Updated on Jan 02, 2010 11:47 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Wait until dark
In ‘Dream Villa’, Dayanita Singh’s forthcoming show on the insides and outsides of Indian family homes, night — the raw material of painters and poets — is lit by neons, crisscrossed by wires, smells of alleyways, writes Paramita Ghosh.
Updated on Jan 01, 2010 11:15 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Rendezvous with Ben Anderson
Anderson is one of the first and original theorists of nations and nationalisms. His pathbreaking work Imagined Communities is an exploration of how various peoples have at a certain juncture in history imagined themselves into nations. Paramita Ghosh interviewd him on his recent visit to Delhi.
Updated on Dec 18, 2009 05:46 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Picasso’s Lolita
A little-known love story sits at the heart of the Pablo Picasso exhibition in Delhi. Don’t miss it. Paramita Ghosh writes.
Updated on Nov 14, 2009 11:46 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
GROUND REALITIES
Flying is very hard work for Malegaon’s Superman. In Nasir’s latest film (shown at the 11th Osian festival in Delhi, it will be screened next at the international film festival in Goa), Shafique as Superman is the hero. Paramita Ghosh takes a close-up.
Updated on Nov 08, 2009 01:32 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Going crazy in Varanasi
This holy town is unique in its liking and acceptance of ‘irrational’ behaviour — one that helps articulate general discontent, writes Paramita Ghosh.
Updated on Oct 25, 2009 01:58 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
A world of cinema
The 11th Osian film festival, to be held in Delhi this week, is not about numbers, but the numbers are impressive anyway. Paramita Ghosh tells more.
Updated on Oct 23, 2009 10:15 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Japanese biryani in Delhi
The chicken can be more than a bird. It can be proof of a country’s multiculturalism (Think of Great Britain). It can be made to blast culinary rituals (Japan).
Updated on Sep 05, 2009 02:27 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Victoria memorials
Dalhousie Square was the centre of an empire. A book captures what remains: a strangely moving, decaying shell, writes Paramita Ghosh.
Updated on Sep 05, 2009 07:33 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Book sales are up, debate is getting shriller
By expelling him from the party, it has given his book, Jinnah — India, Partition, Independence, instant fame. Got people curious. And these curious people are heading for bookstores, reports Paramita Ghosh.
Updated on Aug 19, 2009 11:55 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Caste in stone
For Dalits, Mayawati’s statues are not useless, but they want development as well, writes Paramita Ghosh.
Updated on Aug 17, 2009 09:04 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Story of the eye
The Steidl collection is a rare insight into 150 years of photographic history. And now, the famous arthouse has arrived in India. Paramita Ghosh writes.
Updated on Aug 19, 2009 12:44 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
The Krishna factory
From Nagaland to Navi Mumbai, Krishna is in huge demand everywhere. With Janmashtami in a few days, the raas leela artists of Vrindavan are raking it in, writes Paramita Ghosh.
Updated on Aug 09, 2009 12:09 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
For the kitchen shelf
Indian food is going places. Salma Husain’s book on Mughal cuisine has won the top award in the Best in the World Book for Culinary History section at the Gourmand Awards held in Paris. The Emperor’s Table also won the Special Award of the Jury.
Updated on Jul 31, 2009 11:34 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
All about the Monet
I had mixed feelings when I saw Claude Monet on the walls selling at a discount of 25 per cent and his Poppyfield-Argenteuil selling as a card at a discount of 20 per cent. But then I banished the thought.
Updated on Jul 24, 2009 09:45 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Chasing the shadows
There are only two ways to describe a man who plans a summer vacation 13 years in advance.
Updated on Jul 18, 2009 11:12 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Nepal in transition through the lens
Fifty pictures, part of a travelling exhibition from a selection from the book A People War, are a window to what has happened in Nepal since monarchy was made to make way for Maoism.
Updated on Jul 18, 2009 10:35 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Hair goes there
Here’s one export business in which India is the world leader, reports Paramita Ghosh.
Updated on Jul 12, 2009 12:51 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Baba Brand Dev
Ramdev is the ultimate tele guru, with a cure for obesity, infertility, and recession blues, but in labelling homosexuality a disease, has unlikely icon Ramdev contorted into an asana too tough? Paramita Ghosh reports the success of Ramdev brand.
Updated on Jul 12, 2009 01:09 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh