Gourkishore Ghosh

Gourkishore Ghosh

• Gourkishore Ghosh (22 June 1923 – 15 December 2000) was an journalist, activist, author and above all an Humanist.
• He was born in Hat Gopalpur village in Jessore district in undivided Bengal, (presently Bangladesh).
• He has worked in Satyayug magazine, Anandabazar Patrika (ABP)(1952) as a journalist. 
• He was one of the founding editor of  Aajkaal  (1980-1982), later he returned to Anandabazar Patrika in 1982 and remained attached to the organization till the end.
• In 1975, during the state emergency he began a symbolic protest with a traditional Hindu act of bereavement, by shaving off his curly black hair, but to achieve maximum propaganda effect he kept his full moustache and walked through the streets drawing passersby into his loss.
• He was presented Ramon Magsaysay Award (1981) for Journalism, Literature and Creative Communication Arts.
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