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
FTII chairman's new battle: Students strike, sceptical film fraternity
Gajendra Chauhan's appointment as chairman of India's premier film institute, the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), the laboratory for research and production of the highest levels of Indian cinema for nearly 50 years, has brought his filmography up for scrutiny.
Updated on Jun 21, 2015 04:03 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
My favourite film is 3 Idiots: Gajendra Chauhan, FTII chairman
Talking interview with Gajendra Chauhan, succeeds veteran director Saeed Mirza. The announcement has raised Cain, the student community of FTII is on strike, and the film fraternity, left wondering at the selection of an actor whose body of work has included films of questionable taste.
Updated on Jun 20, 2015 09:51 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
I felt free when I quit the LTTE: Former militant Anthony Thasan
Former LTTE militant Anthony Thasan discusses how this year's surprise Palme d'Or winner, Dheepan, mirrors the reality of Tamil refugees in France
Updated on Jun 07, 2015 12:01 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Calligraphy exhibition: What it took to be an artist in medieval India
An exhibition on Arabic-Persian calligraphy in medieval India gives viewers a glimpse of what it took to be an artist in that period.
Updated on May 30, 2015 02:30 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Is Left still 'cool' on campus or has Right's rise changed that?
The Left has always drawn its members from student unions. But is the Left still 'cool' on campus or has the rise of the Right changed that?
Updated on May 10, 2015 06:58 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Road to recovery: How Diya Sethi fought bulimia
In a tell-all book, chef and food consultant Diya Sethi talks about her battle with bulimia, a disease well-known in the Western world, but brushed aside in India as just another weight-loss problem.
Updated on Apr 26, 2015 11:54 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Young Punjab in rehab: A story of unequal cure, unlicensed centres and a few good men
Young Punjab is checking into rehabilitation centres to treat drug and alcohol addiction. The bad news is that many are getting stuck there. A story of unequal cure, unlicensed centres and a few good men.
Updated on Apr 19, 2015 08:10 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Looking for grey in Craig Semetko's India Unposed collection
Forty one of the prints of Semetko's 'India Unposed' collection are hanging at an exhibition, for which Semetko chose to go, as he says, "black and white in one of the most colourful countries in the world."
Updated on Apr 04, 2015 05:55 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Southern avenues: Exhibiting the richness of the Deccan Sultanate
The Deccan Sultanate was no satellite of the Mughal empire. A new exhibition unfolds its efflorescence.
Updated on Mar 14, 2015 04:22 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Sex in relationships: I've never wasted time thinking about morality
Both women say fantasies play an important role. For Niharika, it meant watching porn to get excited, even as Rose 'mentally channels' all the men she has known. Two years ago, Rose acted on her fantasies and started having an affair with a married office colleague, with whom her husband also gets along.
Updated on Mar 08, 2015 12:54 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh and Namita Kohli, New Delhi
An architecture school in Mumbai
From Shivaji memorials to slum development, community housing to highrises, a new school of architecture helmed by architects from Mumbai and Delhi is bringing culture and community back into the classroom.
Updated on Mar 01, 2015 12:41 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Bitter harvest: Mehdi case shows enough ground for radical Islam's rise in Bengal
In the communal cauldron of today's Bengal, and of India in general, a young urban Bengali Muslim has no role model, no party, or guideline to follow. The city and the country he/she grew up in is making him/her feel different.
Updated on Dec 28, 2014 04:54 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
After the tigers are gone in Jaffna
Sri Lanka, from inside a train window, is a sight. Train stations, in muted pastels and peach wait with freshly painted prettiness in the sun. But, public places still bear traces of a war zone even if soldiers are absent.
Updated on Nov 23, 2014 11:20 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Deccani Sikhs: Punjabi by nature?
Deccani Sikhs, descendants of the Lahori Fauj dispatched by Maharaja Ranjit Singh to help the Nizam of Hyderabad, are a minority Sikh community rooted in Telangana. Amritsar may be their holy place, but for them Hyderabad is home, they say.
Updated on Sep 28, 2014 06:31 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
The new squabble at Amethi: Domestic troubles of Sanjay Sinh enter the fray
The domestic troubles of Sanjay Sinh, the ‘Raja of Amethi,’ have taken on a political hue with his first wife backing their son to claim the family legacy. Paramita Ghosh writes.
Updated on Aug 17, 2014 09:49 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, Amethi
Saving and splurging: What's on young consumers' minds
Generation Next succumbs to and denies brand obsession in the same breath. But what everyone loves is a ‘good deal’.
Updated on Sep 03, 2015 07:41 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
For the urban youth, it’s coffee for all reasons
India's youth loves coffee and likes spending time in coffee shops for varied reasons. “Cute boys go to coffee shops, and perhaps they come to coffee shops for the same reason,” says Ishita, a student from Mumbai.
Updated on Sep 03, 2015 06:48 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Dull no more: Living it up in small towns
Small doesn’t mean dull. Life’s looking up in cities that are not traditionally considered metropolises and its inhabitants have the money to afford a socially active lifestyle.
Updated on Sep 03, 2015 06:48 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
The materialistic generation
Middle-class youth has been at the forefront of India's consumerist push. Disposable incomes, the lowering of age in the job market courtesy occupations like call centres, loosening of parental say on the lives and choices of youth, and the increasing dominance of the televisual culture has meant that the Indian youth is more free, than say, 10 years before, to express what they want from life.
Updated on Aug 11, 2014 08:47 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Being Bhaijaan: Documentary explores why Salman clicks with India’s small towns
Shabani Hassanwalia and Samreen Farouqui explore the world of self-conscious masculinity in their soon-to-be released film, Being Bhaijaan, in which Salman Khan is the trope for exploring the life of Shan Ghosh, a young Salman fan from the small town of Chhindwara in central India.
Updated on Jul 27, 2014 12:55 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Spotlight on Kerala nurses: What prompts them to leave India?
The return from Iraq has lobbed certain questions at the Kerala nursing fraternity. It believes it has to answer them, both for self-clarification and to explain why things are the way they are, writes Paramita Ghosh.
Updated on Jul 13, 2014 02:55 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
The partition of hope for Telangana
Telangana has become the 29th state of India. But it has opened the floodgates of old hurts and anxieties, souring the present. HT talks to a cross section of people on the birth pangs of the new state as they grapple with the changed realities.
Updated on Jun 15, 2014 12:34 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Book on Tiananmen Square massacre marks 25th anniversary
S Anand, publisher, Navayana, has brought out the book in India to commemmorate the event’s 25th anniversary. Why is Tiananmen on the international timeline in a way that many other Asian examples of state brutality are not? Paramita Ghosh explores.
Updated on Jun 07, 2014 08:52 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Rohit Shekhar shares how he got his mother and ND Tiwari married
Rohit Shekhar’s mother Ujjwala Sharma got married to his father ND Tiwari almost certainly through the legal efforts of their son. HT talks to the young man about what kept him going despite all odds.
Updated on May 24, 2014 09:10 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
The battle of wits
If the First World War (1914-1918) was about the future of Europe, it was also about Asia’s, and the 1.4 million Indian soldiers on duty at the various fronts, were writing about it.
Updated on May 04, 2014 01:27 PM IST
More than one lakh Sri Lankan Tamil refugees live on low rations in dingy camps
The Sri Lankan Tamil issue is a powerfully emotive one in Tamil Nadu. However, over a lakh refugees in the state live on low rations in dingy camps, have no rights, and suffer from a lack of judicial redress, writes Paramita Ghosh.
Updated on Apr 21, 2014 08:45 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Gone with the Wind, James Bond make way for Ambedkar in Delhi University
Probably the first graphic book to be incorporated into the syllabus of any Indian university, Bhimayana has, however, raised a few questions on the way Ambedkar has made an entry into the realm of ‘popular’ culture while making its way into Delhi University's undergraduate English Honours course.
Updated on Apr 14, 2014 03:14 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Raoghat mines in Bastar: Iron in their souls
The Raoghat mines is the latest flashpoint between the state and the people over what should be the right road to development. The Bhilai Steel Plant iron-ore mine had led to massive deforestation in Dalli-Rajhara, so would its mine at Raoghat be any different?
Updated on Mar 30, 2014 08:42 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Smithsonian brings to life the Indian-American love story
Beyond Bollywood, an exhibition on Indians being held at the Smithsonian, Washington DC explores the themes of Migration, Early Immigrants, Professional Contribution, Arts and Activism, Cultural Contribution, Groundbreakers, Contribution to Religion and Spirituality.
Updated on Mar 09, 2014 01:34 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Nageen Tanvir: In search of a future
Nageen Tanvir picked up the mantle of managing Naya Theatre after her father Habib Tanvir’s death in 2009,so that her father or his company is not talked of in the past tense. She talks of the challenges she faced.
Updated on Mar 02, 2014 02:03 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh