The Statesman

Established in 1875, The Statesman is one of the better respected daily newspapers to be published in 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.

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. After independence, its control passed to Indians.

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 opposed Mrs. Indira Gandhi's Emergency in 1975-77 tooth and nail. Currently it opposes the Marxist regime in West Bengal, the Hindu nationalist politics of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Delhi as also 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, London, many overseas based Indians consider it to be an Indian equivalent of The New York Times.

Official Website

Official website (http://www.thestatesman.org/page.news.php?clid=3&theme=&usrsess=1&id=23961)