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“He was a man who questioned everything. He never accepted the status quo,” said Patricia Mukhim, editor of the Shillong Times, as she recalled Gur Kishore Ghosh at an event in Kolkata to celebrate the life of the veteran journalist on the centenary of his birth.
The panel discussion, which was held at the Birla Sabha Griha in Kolkata on Tuesday, was on Deshprem-Deshdroh.
Taking part in the discussion, he described the Magsaysay Prize winner’s camp as a “philosopher journalist”. “He (Ghosh) went to jail for a reason he believed in. He dared to write an open letter to Indira Gandhi and called her a fascist. We don’t have men and women of that sort. Now we are working on the balance because no one knows when she will be locked up under fitna,” said Camp. “.
When Gur Kishore Ghosh took up the issue, challenging the lack of freedom of speech, India was 28 years old. Until then democracy was under threat. Today, India turns 75, but we cannot say that we are better off today.”
Expressing concern about the violence in Manipur, Mukhim said “Sometimes India forgets that Northeast India shares an international border of 5,182 km…”
Quoting Rabindranath Tagore, Semanti Ghosh, associate editor of Anandabazar Patrika said: “Truths that save us have always been told by the few and rejected by the many and triumphed through their failures.”
The panel discussion was attended by Dr. Amit Roy, Sahana Nag Chowdhury, Patrali Ghosh, Prakriti Mukherjee and Pratyush Mukherjee.
Gur Kishore Ghosh died on December 15, 2000 at the age of 77.
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