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
Films on ordinary life difficult to do: Vishal Bhardwaj
At the centennial celebration of Indian cinema, Vishal Bhardwaj took time out after attending a discussion on issues of censorship, screen violence and cuss words to talk with Paramita Ghosh of his journey as a student and maker of cinema.
Updated on Apr 26, 2013 11:23 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Saving the classics from a dusty death
In 2010, the (NFAI) got a request from critic Utpal Bhorjupari to salvage Goswami’s film Runumi banned by the Assam government in 1952. Luckily, a print was found buried underground in a rusty metal trunk containing 13 reels caked with mud, reports Paramita Ghosh.
Updated on May 02, 2013 03:03 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Thirty frames of hope and despair
If cinema is the experience of a community, a museum of cinema needs to be more than a house of history. It must mark out periods of enterprise, bow to pioneers, and also look at its failures, its rebels, writes Paramita Ghosh. Filmy fundas
Updated on Apr 26, 2013 11:46 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Fresh winds of change at museums
National and privately owned art museums in India operate as if they are in two different time zones, but that may be about to change. Officials are being made to spring-clean their old theories and practices of work. Paramita Ghosh reports.
Updated on Apr 21, 2013 01:31 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
India's museums finally come out of the past
A group of artists and curators is redefining the way museums function, with many ‘artistic labs’ cropping up. During a recent exhibition called Sarai Reader 09, about 100 artists lived and worked to see how they influenced each other’s art. Paramita Ghosh reports.
Updated on Apr 21, 2013 09:46 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Life without benefits for India’s gay couples
Same-sex couples in India can only dream of fighting for equal rights the way Windsor is doing. Benefits such as tax deductions, inheritance and pensions in case of the spouse’s death — all available to heterosexual couples under the law — are denied to gay unions. Paramita Ghosh and Abhijit Patnaik report.
Updated on Apr 07, 2013 09:45 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh and Abhijit Patnaik
Delhi’s future: full of concrete, dry taps?
The water crisis in Delhi was based on an arbitrary and unequal water distribution process and a crass neglect of the city’s natural water sources that could have eased the pressure on rapidly sinking groundwater. Paramita Ghosh reports.
Updated on Mar 21, 2013 08:34 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Young and restless: Meet India’s new radicals
Afroze Sahil, 25, a tailor’s son, is from Champaran, “where bullets fly more than in Wasseypur”. He came to Delhi in 2005, studied in Jamia, joined the Campaign Against Bribery in 2006 and became a full-fledged RTI activist since the 2008 Batla House encounter.
Updated on Mar 10, 2013 12:58 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Meet India’s new-age radicals
Unlike the Mandal protests, which were led by upper-caste, upper-class students demanding for themselves, the recent radicalisation is being spearheaded by youth wanting to transform the system rather than reject. Parmita Ghosh reports.
Updated on Mar 10, 2013 09:51 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
By 2050, US may have Prez of Asian origin
In less than 40 years, America might have a President of Asian origin drawing on a support-base of 17.3 million immigrant population. Paramita Ghosh reports.
Updated on Feb 23, 2013 10:39 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Website brings jobs closer to the differently abled
India has between 60 million and 96 million (5-8%) of its total 1.2 billion population as disabled, of which between 264,000 and 422,400 (0.44%) are employed. It is this inequality is being addressed with www.jobability.org, a job portal specifically for the disabled. Paramita Ghosh reports.
Updated on Feb 03, 2013 12:01 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
So near, yet so far?
Recently two Kashmiri Muslims were acquitted in the Lajpat Nagar blasts, putting the spotlight on convictions based on doubtful evidence. But when will civil society take up their cause? Paramita Ghosh explores.
Updated on Jan 20, 2013 01:41 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Rule of law often dispensable dealing with terrorism: JTSA president
This report derives from JTSA's long campaign for rule of law and due process which are often seen as dispensable in dealing with terrorism. Manisha Sethi tells Paramita Ghosh.
Updated on Jan 16, 2013 04:02 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Break this cycle of intimidation
Official amnesia from 1947 onwards set the terms for perpetuating apathy towards gender-specific violence. Paramita Ghosh writes.
Updated on Jan 13, 2013 10:09 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
The master of thokshahi
The Sena forged the Marathi identity in economic and brute opposition to The Other.
Updated on Nov 23, 2012 04:11 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Because dirty pictures sell so well
Bollywood has always been liberal about rape. Even in the 1950s, an opportunity - not necessity - was all its male characters needed to indulge in sexual violence. Paramita Ghosh reports.
Updated on Oct 10, 2012 02:06 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
India shamed: Chances of a woman being raped doubled in past 20 years
From castration to death sentence for rapes, India has debated steps to check rapists but done little to prevent the crime - the fastest growing among all violent offences in this country of 1.2 billion people. Aloke Tikku & Paramita Ghosh report. Numbers tell the story | 2012's shocking rape incidents | Report card
Updated on Oct 10, 2012 11:26 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Aloke Tikku and Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Being Mummy: the best-worst job in the world
Is being mummy the best-worst job in the world? Paramita Ghosh finds out.
Updated on Sep 19, 2012 11:15 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
The building blocks of Top 20 faculties
Not the smartest uniform or a state-of-the-art building, a good school is known by the teachers it employs. “Finding the right faculty is my prime challenge,” said Arvind Bhatia, principal, Bal Bharti Public School-Brij Vihar, Ghaziabad.
Updated on Sep 19, 2012 10:44 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Passing the inclusion test
East Delhi schools maintain academic excellence and inculcate a sense of social responsibility among its students and teachers
Updated on Sep 13, 2012 11:27 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Zehra Kazmi and Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Passing the inclusion test
Not all schools in east Delhi are well-known, so discerning parents queue up to put their children in the area's biggies such as Ahlcon International, Salwan Public School or Amity International, located in Mayur Vihar. Zehra Kazmi and Paramita Ghosh report. Top ten schools of east Delhi
Updated on Sep 13, 2012 02:24 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Zehra Kazmi and Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Ghaziabad’s boutique schools
Skates, French, splash pools — what’s not to like? A choice of schools has made Ghaziabad parents overcome the Delhi-fixation
Updated on Sep 07, 2012 02:16 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Private schools undeveloped, private unregulated
If something is better than nothing, then Deepak Singh, a shopkeeper’s son, a student at the Rajkiya Pratibha Vikas Vidyalay (RPVV), Dwarka, is doing very well.
Updated on Sep 03, 2012 02:49 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
India’s youngest towns: Rising stars or new rowdies on block?
Open sewers, power-less nights, eager youngsters with a mall-fixation — this is Khora, on the Delhi-Ghaziabad border, one of India’s youngest towns or census towns. Paramita Ghosh reports.
Updated on Aug 05, 2012 02:25 AM IST
None | Paramita Ghosh, Khora (uttar Pradesh)
‘Villagers don’t just rush to cities. It’s a well-planned move.’
Honorary (Emeritus) Professor of the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi University, Ashish Bose has written and edited more than 20 books on India's population and development. He talks about the implications of 'Census Towns' to Paramita Ghosh.
Updated on Aug 04, 2012 11:15 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
New towns on the block
Birth pangs India’s youngest towns face myriad challenges: better civic amenities, jobs, education and healthcare. How are they faring?
Updated on Aug 05, 2012 02:32 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Abhijit Patnaik and Paramita Ghosh
Of 'demagoguery' and democracy
Writer, activist & publisher Tariq Ali, in New Delhi this week, is forthright in his views on everything from Kashmir to maoists and the Anna Hazare movement, Paramita Ghosh writes.
Updated on Apr 09, 2012 11:59 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Graveyard shift
When cycle mechanic Mohammed Sharif's son died, all he got back was his shirt. But he rose above his personal tragedy to perform the last rites of those who had no family, irrespective of faith. Paramita Ghosh writes.
Updated on Jan 15, 2013 12:09 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, Faizabad (uttar Pradesh)
Meet the poor man's Medicine Baba
649 million Indians have no access to medicine. Omkar Nath begs on Delhi's streets to change that. Paramita Ghosh reports.
Updated on Apr 16, 2012 06:15 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
Two sirens, two stories
Smita Patil went against the grain of commercial cinema. Silk Smitha was a perfect fit. Paramita Ghosh writes.
Updated on Dec 22, 2011 11:34 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh