Bengali
Bengali or Bengalee, or Bengalese may refer to:
*something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia
* Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region
* Bengali language, the language they speak
** Bengali alphabet, the w ...
daily published from
Kolkata
Kolkata, also known as Calcutta ( its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal. It lies on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River, west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary ...
by the Basumati Corporation Limited. It was first published on 6 August 1914 and stopped its publication in 2003.
History
In 1881, Upendranath Mukhopadhyay started the
Basumati Sahitya Mandir
Basmati () is a variety of long, slender-grained aromatic rice which originates from the Indian subcontinent, mainly in the regions of Nepal, Punjab, Haryana, Sindh and many other states and provinces of India and Pakistan.Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa as a publishing house in Beadon Street. Later he shifted his workplace to Grey Street and finally to the present location at Bowbazar Street. In 1895, inspired by Vivekananda Mukhopadhyaya started publishing ''Weekly Basumati'', a digest of the news from all over the world. On 6 August 1914, the ''Dainik Basumati'' began. In 1941, the Bengal government cracked down on the daily as it played major role of patriotic thought against the Government. The publication of ''Dainik Basumati'' was stopped and ''Basumati Telegram'' was launched.
In 1961, the Basumati Sahitya Mandir ran into internal problems. It was acquired by
Ashoke Kumar Sen
Ashoke Kumar Sen (10 October 1913 – 21 September 1996) was an Indian barrister, a former Cabinet minister of India, and an Indian parliamentarian.
He also holds the record for winning a Lok Sabha seat the most times and also the record for b ...
, the then Union Law Minister in 1962. In 1970, the publication of ''Dainik Basumati'' was suspended and the Basumati Corporation Limited closed down. In 1971 it reopened again. Four years later in 1974, the publication house was acquired by the Government of West Bengal. In September 1992, the Basumati stopped its operations in Kolkata and moved to
Siliguri
Siliguri (, ; ), also known as Shiliguri, is a major Tier ii cities in india, tier-II city in West Bengal. It forms the twin cities, Twin Cities with the neighbouring city of Jalpaiguri. The city spans areas of the Darjeeling district, Darjeel ...
. In 2003, the ''Dainik Basumati'' stopped its publication.
Editors
Dainik Basumati, one of the oldest Bengali Daily papers, was edited by
Barindra Kumar Ghosh
Barindra Kumar Ghosh or Barindra Ghosh, or popularly Barin Ghosh (5 January 1880 – 18 April 1959), was an Indian revolutionary and journalist. He was one of the founding members of Jugantar Bengali weekly, a revolutionary outfit in Bengal. G ...