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The Statesman is a direct descendant of two newspapers, the Bombay (now Mumbai) based Indian Statesman and The Friend of India published in Calcutta (now Kolkata). Indian Statesman was started by Robert Knight, who was previously the principal founder and editor of The Times of India. Knight merged the two papers to Indian Statesman and New ...
Ian Melville Stephens CIE (1903 – 28 March 1984) [1] was a British journalist who was the editor of the Indian newspaper The Statesman (then British-owned) in Kolkata, West Bengal, from 1942 to 1951. [2]
Sunanda K. Datta-Ray (born 13 December 1937) is an Indian journalist. He has been editor of The Statesman (Calcutta and New Delhi) and has also written for the International Herald Tribune and Time. [1]
The Bengal famine of 1943-44 was a major famine in the Bengal province [A] in British India during World War II.An estimated 2.1 million, [B] out of a population of 60.3 million, [2] died from starvation, malaria and other diseases aggravated by malnutrition, population displacement, unsanitary conditions, and lack of health care.
The JS editorial office was located on a mezzanine floor of the Statesman House, a colonial structure in Chowringhee Square, Kolkata. [3] The office environment was described as largely egalitarian, with minimal hierarchical structure, except for the acknowledged leadership of Desmond Doig.
Dainik Statesman started circulation from 28 June 2004. The newspaper became more popular after the Singur and Nandigram clashes since 2006 when The Statesman group and more specifically the Bengali version, Dainik Statesman presented the views of those opposed to land-acquisition whereas the ABP group was more interested in presenting the ...
Raj Bhavan is the official residence of the Governor of West Bengal, located in Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal.Built in 1803, it was known as Government House during the Company rule in India and the British Raj.
A week after the incident, The Statesman Weekly, a leading Calcutta newspaper in 1982, reported that "[s]eventeen Ananda Margis, two of them women, were killed on April 30 morning by frenzied mobs at three places in South Calcutta on the suspicion that they were child-lifters". [2]