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Established in 1875 , ''The Statesman'' is among the leading daily Newspapers of India . It is published simultaneously in Calcutta , New Delhi , Siliguri and Bhubaneshwar . It has its headquarters at Statesman House, Chowringhee Square, Calcutta and its national editorial offices in Statesman House, Connaught Place, New Delhi. HISTORY It was incorporated and directly descended from The Englishman, which was published in Calcutta from 1811 . During the British era, it was British run and managed, but after independence, its control passed to Indians. CHARACTERS It is known for its vehement anti- Establishment stance. It opposed the shifting of India's capital from Calcutta to New Delhi in 1911 in the following terms: "The British have gone to the city of graveyards to be buried there". It strenuously opposed Indira Gandhi 's Emergency in 1975 - 77 . Currently it opposes the Marxist regime in West Bengal , the Hindu nationalist politics of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Delhi as well as the global interventionism of George W. Bush . The Statesman Award for Rural Reporting is presented to outstanding journalists every year, irrespective of affiliation, for furthering the social upliftment of India's indigent. Though it is largely inspired and modelled on '' The Times '' (of London ), many overseas based Indians consider it to be an Indian equivalent of '' The New York Times ''. SUPPLEMENTS Notable among all of the daily supplements of the newspaper is the Thursday supplement called ''The Voices''. The Voices has gained enormous popularity since its inception in 1995. It gives the opportuniy to school kids to showcase their writing skills with research articles, poems and short news clips. The Voices boasts of a large number of so-called ''Coordinators'', or kid reporters who form the basic framework of Voices and the conduit among the Statesman and school children. The Voices every year holds the wildly popular 2-day long festival called the ''Vibes'' in Kolkata, which showcases inter-school competitons in different fields and also shows by popular musicians and bands. EXTERNAL LINK |
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