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
New Indian Foundation ’s focus on post-1947 history to fill literary gap
There are many histories — subaltern, institutional, to do with movements — that tell the story of a nation, its crests, troughs, flows and stasis. Since 2004, the New Indian Foundation (NIF)
Updated on Aug 28, 2018 11:36 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Bengaluru | Paramita Ghosh
Raj Khosla, India’s answer to Alfred Hitchcock and Bollywood’s master of thrills
Alfred Hitchcock would have turned 119 this month. A look at how Raj Khosla, one of the top Hindi film directors of the ’50s-’80s imbibed Hitchcock’s spirit, moulding it to suit the Indian audience
Updated on Aug 19, 2018 01:01 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Sandip Ray readies his first Professor Shonku film
Sandip Ray is directing the first film based on his father, Satyajit Ray’s creation – Professor Shonku, an eccentric scientist. Feluda, Ray’s other famous hero, had charisma. What drives Shonku?
Updated on Aug 11, 2018 09:41 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Dhritiman Chatterjee to play Professor Shonku, a Satyajit Ray hero
Dhritiman Chatterjee began his acting life with director Satyajit Ray’s Pratidwandi (1970). He has played lead roles in many of the films by Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Sen, the greats of Bengali art-house cinema, but has preferred to do cinema alongside a parallel career in advertising and documentary-making.
Updated on Aug 11, 2018 09:41 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Parallel cinema’s gentle giant, Saeed Mirza is out with his new memoir
In conversation: about the politics that have shaped his films and the cost of forgetting one’s roots
Updated on Jul 07, 2018 09:42 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
‘Produce a film if you feel you will die if you don’t make that film. It was like that with me, with Ray’
The only time Satyajit Ray worked with a rookie producer was in Shatranj ke Khilari. On Ray’s 97th birth anniversary, Suresh Jindal reveals the give and take of their relationship, and unknown facets of Ray, the man and the collaborator
Updated on May 12, 2018 09:46 AM IST
Hindustan times | Paramita Ghosh
The gun, flashgun and the viewfinder: Photographers in Kashmir remain impartial witnesses of the conflict
Photographers are the latest fall guys in Kashmir. They are often harassed, yet carry the burden of being impartial witnesses of the conflict. And then one of them, Kamran Yousuf, was arrested.
Updated on May 03, 2018 11:36 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
My Meerabai isn’t a cluster of cliches says Kiran Nagarkar of his Cuckold heroine on the book’s 21st anniversary
Author Kiran Nagarkar’s novel Cuckold missed the Booker but won the Sahitya Akademi award
Updated on Apr 15, 2018 08:40 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
The other side of Steve: A Bombay boy who founded Chippendales, America’s first all-male strip club
A risqué business: the story of a Bombay boy who founded a club in Eighties’ America where men would dance for women
Updated on Apr 03, 2018 06:40 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
From Canton to Kolkata
From ship builders, dentists, shoe-makers -- to chefs. How did the Chinese in India get stuck with the identity of the Chinese chef? A report from Kolkata, the only Indian city with two Chinatowns where the Chinese came 220 years ago
Updated on Mar 10, 2018 11:23 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
‘My god is more of a god than your god is ungodly - the same applies to languages,’ says writer Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
A titan of world literature, Ngugi is in Delhi for a lecture series today.
Updated on Feb 23, 2018 05:46 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
A daughter fights: When a Parsi woman marries a non-Parsi man
Goolrookh Gupta is fighting for those Parsi women who have been denied religious rights because they married non-Parsis. Will the Parsi community support her?
Updated on Feb 12, 2018 10:30 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Kerala artists force a think on contested spaces
Group show at a Delhi gallery
Updated on Jan 20, 2018 10:01 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Madame Tussauds comes to Delhi... But makes a tepid start, omits some big names from India
Sixty per cent of the display in Delhi consists of Indian content, but some of the glaring misses are first Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and popular Bollywood actor Aamir Khan. Shah Rukh Khan is also missing, but will be joining the display here soon.
Updated on Jan 10, 2018 12:36 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Delhi lensman photographs Himachal’s broke-back mountains
Vadehra Gallery hosts Roy’s exhibition. Ram Rahman curates it.
Updated on Dec 18, 2017 06:36 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Jashn-e-Rekhta: Meet the man whose passion project is now a celebration of Urdu
The three-day festival, celebrating Urdu, is an important event in Delhi’s social calendar.
Updated on Dec 09, 2017 03:07 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
From Russia with love: How the Bolshevik revolution impacted India’s leaders
Subhash Bose wanted Soviet help. Nehru brought ideas of planning, not the Soviet economic model. MN Roy worked in the Russian foreign office. Periyar spread ideas of social justice.
Updated on Nov 19, 2017 09:13 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Language and love: The story of India’s oldest surviving Sanskrit newspaper
For over 40 years, Sudharma, a Sanskrit daily of Mysuru has battled funds crunch, lack of manpower, and sceptics to survive. But for how long?
Updated on Nov 15, 2017 01:18 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Danish Husain returns to Delhi with qissebaazi, a form he invented
This week, the talented dastango and actor Danish Husain acts in a play in Delhi and presents a performance of qissebaazi - a form he invented
Updated on Oct 14, 2017 12:41 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
How to get a religion: Veerashaivas and Lingayats stake their claim in Karnataka
What’s the link between the deaths of three dissenters and followers of a faith who now demand a ‘separate religion’ in poll-ready Karnataka
Updated on Oct 09, 2017 10:08 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Designing a doorknob was just the beginning for India’s first crop of ‘visualisers’
Modern India’s first maps, symbols and logos were made by designers who literally invented the profession
Updated on Sep 10, 2017 01:42 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Guftagoo, the only uninterrupted Bollywood celebrity show on Indian television
The other Irfan: host of a popular personality-based TV show.
Updated on Aug 20, 2017 11:37 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Meet the man behind the iconic Doordarshan logo that will soon become history
Devashis Bhattacharyya is the creator of the ‘DD eye’, Doordarshan’s iconic symbol since its inception.
Updated on Aug 09, 2017 09:09 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Pandit Prem Nath Bazaz - a misunderstood and revolutionary Kashmiri Pandit
Bazaz was a Kashmiri Pandit who backed Kashmir’s right to self-determination. Revisiting his legacy to mark his 112th birth anniversary
Updated on Jul 16, 2017 10:25 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
What Manipur’s upcoming WWII war museum says about the state today
A forgotten World War II battle and current realities... What an upcoming museum near Imphal says about Manipur today
Updated on Jun 19, 2017 01:41 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
In India too, black lives should matter
A photo exhibition in Delhi by independent photographer Mahesh Shantaram captures the lives of young Africans living in isolation in India’s cities.
Updated on Jun 03, 2017 03:31 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
What Girish Karnad’s play Tughlaq says about India’s politicians
Watch out for the revival of veteran actor Girish Karnad’s ’60s classic play Tughlaq in Delhi this weekend.
Updated on May 27, 2017 08:36 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
A tribute to Om Puri at this year’s Habitat Film Festival
The Habitat Film Festival in Delhi (May 19-28, 2017), which celebrates Indian cinema, honours the legendary actor Om Puri with a retrospective of his finest films.
Updated on May 20, 2017 08:05 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Blood, crime and gore: The invisible world of India’s police photographers
What police photographers see. But can’t tell.
Updated on May 07, 2017 11:56 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Dhishoom! Meet Bollywood’s masters of sound
Guess who made Sachin’s footsteps in the film Sachin: A Billion Dreams? Two men in a Mumbai studio. A look at the sound specialists of Bollywood.
Updated on Apr 16, 2017 09:54 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh