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
Kejriwal timeline: Civil servant to Street-fighter to CM
From graduating as mechanical engineeri from IIT Kharagpur and being employed at Tata Steel, Jamshedpur till 1992 to spending time working with Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata, Arvind Kejriwal's life has been anything but uneventful.
Updated on Feb 14, 2014 08:22 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
India is home, but happier away
Indians abroad rue lack of public services, socio-economic imbalances and are unable to agree on who should lead the next government, writes Paramita Ghosh.
Updated on Feb 01, 2014 05:56 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Objectivity has no place in a novelist's life, says Philip Hensher
Philip Hensher, the author of Scenes from Early Life (2013), an Ondaatje prize winner that has Bangladesh as setting, uses history in his novels to set up a place, rather than use the form of the historical novel to tell his story.
Updated on Jan 25, 2014 03:36 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Coups and dictators have their link to black comedy
What happens behind the scenes in revolutions and CIA and British-backed coups in the Americas and Iran formed part of a rivetting conversation between writers Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, Michael Axworthy, and Samantha Weinberg during the Jaipur Literature Festival.
Updated on Jan 25, 2014 03:36 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, Jaipur
Indian artistic tradition doesn’t believe in Aristotelian unities: Vikram Chandra
At a session on the third day of the Jaipur litfest and off it, Sacred Games author Vikram Chandra spoke about writing and the multiplicity of emotions that writers here plumb to create their art.
Updated on Jan 19, 2014 08:29 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, Jaipur
How post 9/11 the world turned battlefield and soldiers spies
Named after Mazetti’s book, The Way of Knife, the second session saw policy expert Barnett Rubin, Adrian Levy who has written on the Mumbai attack, Mark Mazzetti and television journalist Ben Anderson, discussing various aspects of the CIA’s shape-shifting since the 70s.
Updated on Jan 19, 2014 09:01 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, Jaipur
How post 9/11 the world turned battlefield and soldiers spies
If James Bond embodied the spirit of MI6’s cloak and dagger during World War II, Mark Mazzetti’s book, The Way of the Knife has been described as the tragicomic account of the CIA’s handling of the USA’s by-now famous slogan — The War on Terror.
Updated on Jan 18, 2014 06:42 PM IST
Portrait of Habib Tanvir as a young man
The memoir of Habib Tanvir Zest For Life was discussed in a three-way conversation between dastango Mahmood Farouqi, theatre expert Piyush Daiya and Hindi novelist Geetanjali Shree on the first day of Jaipur litfest.
Updated on Jan 17, 2014 03:24 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, Jaipur
Hurdles of faith, politics ahead of India's battle against superstition
Two states have taken a leap of faith in India’s fight against superstition, triggering a debate on whether the government can encroach upon the realm of ‘beliefs’.
Updated on Dec 17, 2013 04:02 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Motto of schools in east Delhi: it’s society before self
Environment and social service programmes are emphasized in an organic way in this region’s schools. Values are not taught, they are caught, they say. The 2013 HT- C fore Top Schools Survey gave scores to schools in east Delhi, across 14 parameters, including academic rigour and sports. A look at the top schools.
Updated on Dec 14, 2013 05:48 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
About life and other demons, children speak up about their problems
Being young isn’t easy. Academic goals have to be set and met. Co-curricular activities have to be pursued and enjoyed. The 2013 HT- C fore Top Schools Survey gave scores to schools in south-east Delhi, across 14 parameters, including academic rigour and sports.
Updated on Dec 12, 2013 12:39 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Grim realities: No country for women
According to the HT-GfK Mode survey, Delhi is the most unsafe city. Despite being harassed, women in urban India choose to let it go, with few lodging official complaints. When will things change?
Updated on Dec 04, 2013 02:07 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
10 classic songs of Manna Dey
Singer Manna Dey, who was suffering from lung infection, died at 94, in Bangalore on Thursday. The singer has been in and out of hospital for the past few months. We list ten songs of the legendary singer. Paramita Ghosh writes.
Updated on Oct 25, 2013 10:16 AM IST
Hindustantimes.com | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Don’t be sorry, just be a friend
Despite India’s attempts at inclusive education, schooling for special needs children has usually been a story of lack - of will, infrastructure and personnel.
Updated on Sep 09, 2013 03:51 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
66 years on, an incomplete quest for national identity
Inter-faith friendship is fine but marriage is not. We are all Indian until it’s about job reservations. Why do we stumble when we try for a 21st century identity? Paramita Ghosh writes.
Updated on Aug 15, 2013 06:54 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Gen X wants dictator to get things done
India’s youth is alternating between diplomacy and indecision prior to the 2014 elections. More than half of India’s population is under the age of 25, with 65% of the population under 35. Paramita Ghosh reports.
Updated on Aug 06, 2013 01:20 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Young India irony: 75% will vote but 52% support dictatorship
For Indian youth, the levels of engagement in politics are different as are the reasons. Politics, however, is no longer the one-way street to be travelled only to vote because youngsters know what the country needs. Paramita Ghosh writes.
Updated on Aug 06, 2013 01:21 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Stalking, molestation part of life for women in Delhi
A knife, an axe, a country-made pistol and a bottle of poison formed the inventory of a 23-year-old young undergraduate at JNU who tried to kill, only unsuccessfully, a classmate who might not have been responding to his advances. Paramita Ghosh reports.
Updated on Aug 01, 2013 02:05 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
The foot-in-mouth epidemic and 140-character assassinations
In the age of technology, where furious online debates on websites and verbal bashing on Twitter have become a common phenomenon, people are no longer afraid to speak out their mind. Abhijit Patnaik and Paramita Ghosh write.
Updated on Dec 27, 2013 09:13 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Abhijit Patnaik and Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
War of words: public mud-slinging has replaced healthy debate
Disagreements between politicians and ministerial colleagues across and within parties is not a 21st century phenonmenon. When India’s first PM and home minister disagreed, they shot letters to each other through their private secretaries. Paramita Ghosh & Abhijit Patnaik write.
Updated on Jul 28, 2013 10:28 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh & Abhijit Patnaik, New Delhi
The foot-in-mouth epidemic and Twitter-like 140-character attacks
What is more difficult to believe? That Digvijaya Singh and Narendra Modi have immense respect for each other or, in a secret pre-poll agreement, the Congress general secretary and the BJP’s man of the moment have agreed to slam each other for mileage?
Updated on Jul 29, 2013 02:31 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
The life and times of Pran
Bollywood veteran actor Pran died on Friday evening at the age of 93 in a Mumbai hospital due to a prolonged illness. Here is how his life unfolded:
Updated on Jul 13, 2013 11:48 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
No protection for whistleblowers in India
Being at the heart of a volatile South Asia, India has been the home to refugees from Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tibet, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Myanmar, to name a few.
Updated on Jul 03, 2013 12:44 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Abhijit Patnaik and Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Aam aadmi’s advice to Aam Aadmi Party: Go regional, then national
Many of the voters in Delhi hail Kejriwal's decision of launching the party, but they are not sure whether they would exercise their franchise in favour of the newly-launched 'people's party'. Paramita Ghosh reports. Click here for full coverage of exclusive Hindustan Times Gfk-Mode Survey
Updated on May 28, 2013 01:32 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Child marriages continue unabated
India’s poor record in stopping child marriages can be blamed on two factors: tardy implementation of law and fear of falling foul of tradition reports, Paramita Ghosh.
Updated on May 13, 2013 01:48 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, Mumbai
The revolutionary ideal persists in India: Sanjay Kak
Well-known documentary filmmaker Sanjay Kak has always explored subjects that have tried to pose an alternative to the national discourse. ‘Red Ant Dream’ on the revolutionary linkages between different people’s movements in India is his latest film. Paramita Ghosh interviewed the man.
Updated on May 11, 2013 08:30 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Our films were in reaction to the mainstream: Girish Kasaravalli
Girish Kasaravalli’s first feature, Ghatashraddha (The Ritual) marked the new wave in Kannada films. In 2002, it was chosen for the cinema hundred anniversary celebrations of the Film Archive of Paris as one of the best...
Updated on May 01, 2013 10:50 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Lives of actresses are very short, says Aparna Sen
Aparna Sen, Bengali actor-director was introduced to cinema by Satyajit Ray. The mother of Bollywood actress, Konkana Sensharma, Sen has directed award-winning films such as...Paramita Ghosh wtites.
Updated on Apr 30, 2013 10:45 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
‘All my films have been about freedom’
At the Centennial festival, veteran director Ketan Mehta said he was watching his debut film, Bhavni Bhavai, after 30 years. Dedicated to Asait Thakore, an Indian Shakespeare, Mehta recalled Brecht saying art should be a tool of social transformation, during a chat with Paramita Ghosh.
Updated on May 02, 2013 02:59 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Bollywood doesn’t need more reality, it needs truth: Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Nawazuddin Siddiqui personifies the common man’s takeover of Bollywood. Slowly stepping into lead-actor roles, he has acted in all the major films of Bollywood in recent times He spoke to Paramita Ghosh.
Updated on Apr 29, 2013 09:47 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi