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ISBN | 9789352779437 |
Format | PaperBack |
Language | English |
Year of Publication | 2018 |
Bib. Info | xii, 212p. ; ills. 22 cm. Includes Index. |
Product Weight | 270 gms. |
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In this first-person memoir, Shankar Ghosh voices his father, the legendarynewsman Dr Surendra Nath Ghosh, to narrate his father's life as a journalist.As the longest-serving and first Indian editor of second-oldest Englishnewspaper in India, the Pioneer, Dr S.N. Ghosh's career matched step with themost profound changes in modern history, including India's coming of age asan independent nation.As a cub reporter for the Pioneer, he saw the 'whites only' clubs of the BritishRaj. During the Bengal Famine he helped his wife smuggle grain toCalcutta, then a punishable offence.