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
Sufi Kathak comes to town with Manjari Chaturvedi
Bulle Shah, the revered saint of Punjab, comes alive on stage with a Sufi Kathak performance.
Updated on May 14, 2016 12:35 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Class of 2016: Are Kashmiri boys outside J-K all right?
Kashmiri students have recently been targeted in educational institutions outside Kashmir. We talk to them to find out if their search for an ordinary and conflict-free life outside their state has been worth it, and why.
Updated on May 09, 2016 03:52 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Alternative media’s changing rules of the game, but is it enough?
No tight editorial line. No paper. No office. But does it mean alternative media in building a new ecosystem has no challenges?
Updated on Apr 25, 2016 11:39 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
‘All other media pander to elite Brahminised minorities’
Bahujan activist and contributing editor, Round Table India, Kuffir, talks to HT on the alternative media scenario in India.
Updated on Apr 23, 2016 09:15 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
On Bard’s 400th death anniversary, Stefan Kaye puts his sonnets to music
British musician Stefan Kaye, the founder member of the band Jass B’stards, is a prominent member of Delhi’s musical underground. On the 400th death anniversary of William Shakespeare, Kaye’s band will be putting up a special performance setting Shakespearean sonnets to original music.
Updated on Apr 23, 2016 01:46 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
How water tanks became tanks, planes: A photo journey through Punjab
Who would put toy athletes, household pets, aeroplanes atop their homes? On a road trip through rural Punjab, a photographer comes across unexpected art on the roof
Updated on Apr 16, 2016 04:32 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Politics, profits and cinema: The Gajendra Chauhan effect at National Awards
The honour roll of 2015 – the big-budget Baahubali (Rs 250 crore) wins best feature, Bajirao Mastani (Rs 120 crore) wins best director and Bajrangi Bhaijaan (Rs 90 crore) for best popular film — in a year that saw the release of good mainstream cinema such as Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!, NH 10 and Talvar.
Updated on Apr 08, 2016 11:54 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
From Mahad to Mumbai to Hyderabad, the story of India’s caste blues
The Mahad Satyagraha turned Ambedkar into a national figure. A Dalit leftist and an upper-caste landlord were his close associates. HT traces the caste story with their grandsons and finds the fight they started prefigures Rohith Vemula’s
Updated on Mar 28, 2016 09:31 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Mahad relives BR Ambedkar’s water satyagraha for Dalits
Every year on March 19 and 20, Dalits from across Maharashtra make a beeline for Mahad and congregate at Chavadar tank where BR Ambedkar converted to Buddhism in 1956.
Updated on Mar 22, 2016 07:59 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, Mahad
Find us a house, we are also victims of war: Hounded Bastar lawyers
Lawyers Shalini Gera and Isha Khandelwal have braved police harassment and character assassination to defend people branded Maoists in Bastar.
Updated on Mar 12, 2016 06:58 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Dark and Ugly vs Fair and Lovely: Political talk nosedives in India
The 2014 elections had kicked off the trend in contemporary politics – a battle of ideas replaced by spin, spectacle, pitch and volume.
Updated on Mar 03, 2016 01:27 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
No Spotlight in India: Sex abuse in Catholic Church a blind spot?
The Catholic Church is facing its biggest challenge as the world focuses on instances of clergy sexual abuse and paedophilia in the institution. However, in India, the matter is still a hushed whisper.
Updated on Mar 02, 2016 08:35 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Telugu film hotspot: 20 years of Hyderabad’s Ramoji Film City
The five hallmarks of Telegu cinema: hope, fantasy, action, songs and scale. And most of this they did in the Ramoji Film City. On the 20th anniversary of this great Telugu institution, we plot its legacy.
Updated on Feb 24, 2016 04:07 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Personal connection: The many facets of artist Bhupen Khakhar
The National Gallery of Modern Art showcases the intimate world of Baroda artist Bhupen Khakhar
Updated on Feb 14, 2016 04:13 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
If there’s no caste bias, why are Dalit students killing themselves?
The recent incident is a wake-up call for institutions that are still in denial about caste battles that are now being fought on university campuses and pushing Dalit students over the edge.
Updated on Jan 22, 2016 09:14 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Command performance: Can a party mouthpiece question its leaders?
Or can it just echo the party line? In the wake of the Congress Darshan fracas, a peek inside the newsrooms of the party publications of leading political parties.
Updated on Jan 10, 2016 02:41 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
I am interested in both the world wars, says author Shrabani Basu
Over a million Indian soldiers fought in World War I. Shrabani Basu’s book recalls their forgotten history. An interview with the author.
Updated on Jan 02, 2016 04:16 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Being IFFI on dissent: Difference between the festival and the films
Small-budget indian films find their spotlight at a crowded festival.
Updated on Dec 18, 2015 04:06 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
You can’t spoonfeed culture: Israeli director Amos Gitai
Israeli director Amos Gitai was in India for a retrospective of his works at IFFI 2015. He spoke to HT about the validity of students’ protests, cultural paralysis and how the assassination of its country’s leaders has affected both India and Israel.
Updated on Dec 01, 2015 07:44 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Attack shows France’s complicated relationship with immigrants
France paying in violence for its colonial past is not right, neither is imposing a colonial tax on its former colonies
Updated on Nov 29, 2015 12:23 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Bond girl Lea Seydoux makes an arthouse appearance at IFFI
French actor Lea Seydoux, the Bond girl in the just released James Bond film, Spectre, is now also making her arthouse appearance in India with the IFFI film, Diary of a Chambermaid, based on 1900 Octave Mirbeau novel on moral decadence of the French gentry.
Updated on Nov 23, 2015 02:31 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, Panaji
Ramanujan is the Jackson Pollock of mathematics: Dev Patel
The Man Who Knew Infinity, on the relationship between Cambridge don G.H. Hardy and Ramanujan, was the opening film of IFFI 2015.
Updated on Nov 23, 2015 04:19 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, Panjim
Are women really equal in the matrilineal society of Meghalaya?
No women pastors. Gender imbalance in Khasi dorbars. Men ashamed of women running the show. Is the Presbyterian church mirroring matrilineal Meghalaya’s growing male bias?
Updated on Nov 22, 2015 11:45 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
See the Africa you never did in Roger Ballen’s stunning photos
White, poor and South African. An interview with artist Roger Ballen at the ongoing Delhi Photo Festival.
Updated on Nov 03, 2015 06:23 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Are cops following procedure or giving painstaking probe the go-by?
The law, per se, is still what is ‘good’ about the criminal justice system; the bad guys are the cops mucking up the investigations.
Updated on Nov 01, 2015 01:53 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Ramanujan biopic: A man who was more than the sum of his parts
Srinivasa Ramanujan was a believer in mysticism and a mathematical genius. As a new film is screened on his life, Indian mathematicians grapple with this complex equation.
Updated on Oct 08, 2015 12:48 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Uday Prakash on his protest against silence on Kalburgi murder
The Sahitya Akademi award is one of India's oldest and most prestigious literary awards. Writer Uday Prakash has decided to return his, to protest the official silence over the murder of Kannada writer MM Kalburgi.
Updated on Sep 13, 2015 06:37 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Nashik Kumbh: Of selfies, detergents and power struggles
From selfies to power struggles, the Nashik Kumbh Mela is about the pulls and pressures of faith, festivals and organising a mass event.
Updated on Sep 06, 2015 01:25 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Death of a bookstore: Reading in the time of Kindle
Independent book stores in Delhi are offering discounts, going niche, and doubling up as cultural hubs even as the best ones shut shop.
Updated on Aug 08, 2015 01:51 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh paramitaghosh@hindustantimes.com, New Delhi
Closely observed trains: Indian Railways and the families' memories
On the 40th anniversary of the 70s' cult Anglo-Indian film, Julie, India's first railway families talk of discipline, timetables, loyalties, -- and the way they were.
Updated on Jul 05, 2015 02:43 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi