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
Doordarshan, ek khoj
As India’s first TV channel completes 50 years, old-timers at Doordarshan are busy translating history into a virtual archive — notwithstanding the ‘vinegar syndrome’ and fungus-ridden tapes, reports Paramita Ghosh.
Updated on Jun 07, 2009 12:11 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Battling a time warp in Punjab
Erratic weather and irrigation, coupled with stagnant cotton prices, are pushing cotton farmers to the edge. Paramita Ghosh reports.
Updated on May 11, 2009 12:04 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, Mansa
Mani Kaul does what he must
‘I shouldn’t confine the industry to what I expect of cinema. our films have a special idiom, said Mani Kaul, the film-maker turned festival organiser, in an interview with Paramita Ghosh.
Updated on May 08, 2009 11:22 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Alone in Berlin
Who dares take on the state? During World War II in Germany, an old couple took a stand against Hitler to spread the truth of their times, writes Paramita Ghosh.
Updated on May 04, 2009 06:19 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
The kicking buffalo and other rustic tales
Millions of lives are connected to Punjab’s farms and livestock. But the curious case of an animal hospital and a disheartened vet in southern Punjab tells the larger story of its rural heartland, where every election season the promises flow in, but little else. Paramita Ghosh reports.
Updated on Apr 03, 2009 03:41 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, Punjab
Angst in land of rooftop Patton tanks
Governments long withdrew from villages pampered by Western expat money in Punjab. But election time is also recession time, and power equations are changing. Paramita Ghosh reports.
Updated on Mar 18, 2009 12:58 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, Punjab
Made in Assam
Next Door by Jahnavi Barua is a collection of stories where the characters are so close to life that you wonder if raising it as a problem is the problem.
Updated on Mar 01, 2009 12:18 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
The war diarist
Writer Anthony Thasan was an LTTE child soldier in the 80s. In exile in Paris, he has offered solutions to the region’s oldest civil war. But who is listening? Paramita Ghosh reports.
Updated on Feb 21, 2009 12:00 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Singing the diaspora (remixed)
Chinese-Malay-Brit writer Tash Aw talks to Paramita Ghosh about the East-West way of looking at the world, hyphenated identities and the ‘real’ Malaysia.
Updated on Feb 07, 2009 10:40 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Duck’s progress
The ‘Chinese tandoori chicken’, a traditional treat on their New Year, is on its way to being an Indian favourite too. A report by Paramita Ghosh.
Updated on Jan 24, 2009 11:03 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
All the Raja’s artists
Nostalgia has always been the trump card of calendar art. But we need to move on, says Paramita Ghosh. See Graphics
Updated on Jan 24, 2009 11:44 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Slumdog, the showstopper
Superstars might be an odd sight at a literary festival, but not when Amitabh Bachchan is around. He came to Jaipur for the launch of Bachchanalia. But, Slumdog Millionaire was the talking point, and the actor’s criticism of the film. Paramita Ghosh & Damini Purkayastha report.
Updated on Jan 24, 2009 01:06 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh & Damini Purkayastha, Jaipur
Hijab and a bit of fashion
Themes like diaspora and religious identity post-9/11 got a robust response at the Jaipur Literature Festival with Pakistani writer Nadeem Aslam, author of Wasted Vigil, fielding questions on being Muslim, hijab politics. Paramita Ghosh and Damini Purkayastha report.
Updated on Jan 23, 2009 12:37 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh and Damini Purkayastha, Jaipur
No stars at Slumdog show
After Orhan Pamuk failed to show up, it was Anil Kapoor’s turn to cancel. The biggest event of the Jaipur Literary Festival, the grand premiere of Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, has been turned into a “delegates-only” show, report Paramita Ghosh & Damini Purkayastha.
Updated on Jan 21, 2009 11:04 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh & Damini Purkayastha
A bloody business
On the 75th anniversary of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express, what is the future of murder mysteries? Paramita Ghosh writes.
Updated on Jan 10, 2009 11:07 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Two women
As an actress and now director, Juni has never tried to change the text. It’s best not to, she says though she has opened up plays so that different meanings may emerge, writes Paramita Ghosh.
Updated on Dec 27, 2008 09:46 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Under Cover
So much goes into the making of a magazine cover that it’s almost like a Bollywood shoot. A look at the grit behind the glamour, by Paramita Ghosh and Lalita Iyer.
Updated on Dec 27, 2008 08:41 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh and Lalita Iyer
Goats and saris swing tribal votes
Everyone says Velaram Gogra, a tribal and an Independent candidate fighting the assembly elections for the third time, is an honest man.
Updated on Dec 04, 2008 12:34 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, Udaipur/dungarpur
Pushing the right buttons
Next week, Ravi Singh, the 35-year-old Indian American who has managed the online campaigns of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain, will be in Delhi to give yet another push to get Indian politicians on the web. Paramita Ghosh elaborates.
Updated on Nov 22, 2008 10:56 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
'Duke of Edinburgh is actually the First Lady'
In an interview with Paramita Ghosh, Cherie Blair says that, in the UK, there’s a basic tension between the role of the spouse of the head of government and someone who is an independent person in her own right. See webcast.
Updated on Nov 21, 2008 06:54 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, New Delhi
The time machine
The typewriter lost out to the computer long ago. Today, the rat-tap-tap is almost silent and survives only because of a few dedicated fingers. A requiem to a wonderful anachronism, writes Paramita Ghosh.
Updated on Nov 10, 2008 07:55 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Only yudh at training camps
Twenty-two-year-old Avinash Misra of Faizabad was back in Ayodhya after being trained in atmaraksha (self-defence) and danda (stick) in Himachal Pradesh in mid-October. Paramita Ghosh tells more.
Updated on Nov 02, 2008 12:58 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, Ayodhya
Monkey business in Ayodhya
‘Party first, Ram later.’ At 25, the Bajrang Dal is raring to turn faith into power. And the madrasa-and-church-bashing are coming handy, reports Paramita Ghosh.
Updated on Oct 19, 2008 12:20 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh
Silver jubilee for Bajrang Dal
Ten speeches. A few new threats. Some lessons in history marked the silver jubilee for Bajrang Dal in Ayodhya, reports Paramita Ghosh.
Updated on Oct 14, 2008 01:47 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh, Ayodhya
Speed dating through India
Orientalism is, however, not always a hostile gaze of the East by the West. Often it can be a case of too much loving — of constructing the other in one’s own image, writes Paramita Ghosh.
Updated on Oct 03, 2008 10:20 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Let’s get specific
According to a Futurebrands report on 40 years of Indian matrimonial ads, men are opening themselves up to the female gaze, writes Paramita Ghosh.
Updated on Sep 13, 2008 10:35 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Elderly bear brunt
Kaushalya Devi, 65, of Naraiya village, Supaul district, is not just a case study. She is wife who doesn’t know where her aged husband is. Read on...
Updated on Sep 15, 2008 02:36 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Ramashankar, Paramita Ghosh, Purnia/ Supaul
Grappling with untouchability
Bhagwan Das is the last surviving research assistant of BR Ambedkar. For this chronicler of the Dalit movement, caste remains a tangible political entity as ever, writes Paramita Ghosh.
Updated on Sep 12, 2008 11:16 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh
Apocalypse now
Paramita Ghosh and Soumitra Ghosh travel to submerged Madhepura and find that the tragedy is also a spectacle and a business opportunity. See related pics. | See full coverage.
Updated on Aug 30, 2008 09:43 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh and Soumitra Ghosh
‘This is not freedom. I might be sent to jail again’
As a filmmaker in Chhattisgarh, Ajay had lionised Binayak Sen in his 21-minute documentary Anjam, writes Paramita Ghosh.
Updated on Aug 30, 2008 09:06 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Paramita Ghosh