Quest (Indian magazine)
| Editor | Nissim Ezekiel (first editor) |
|---|---|
| Frequency | quarterly and then bimonthly |
| Circulation | 3000-4000[1] |
| Founder | Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF) born in Berlin in 1950 and dissolves in the late Sixties |
| Founded | 1955 |
| Final issue | 1975 |
| Country |  India |
| Based in | Mumbai |
| Language | English |
Quest is a quarterly and bimonthly Indian journal published between 1955 and 1975 and featuring 20 years of independent India’s intellectual history.[2]
History
The publication was founded in 1954 and ceased in 1975 when the government of Indira Gandhi declared in Indian national emergency. It was a product of the Cold War[3] and was created by the Central Intelligence Agency.[4] During its twenty years of history it featured essays, fiction and poetry from writers such as Nirad Chaudhuri, Dilip Chitre, Allen Ginsberg, Jyotirmoy Datta, Mujibur Rehman, Agha Shahid Ali, Jayanta Mahapatra Dom Moraes, Ashis Nandy, Gauri Deshpande, Adil Jussawalla, Mahapatra, A.K. Ramanujan, Saleem Peeradina, Kolatkar, Chitre, Keki Daruwalla, Anita Desai, Kiran Nagarkar and Abraham Eraly.[1]
Legacy
In 2011 a selection of articles is republished in the publication The best of Quest.[5] Achal Prabhala finds in his family's home the issues in 2007 and he decides to reprint a selection of the articles. The Prabhala's collection is donated to the ICCF The Indian Committee for Cultural Freedom office and digitized.[1]
References
- ^ a b c Supriya Nair (12 November 2011). "Publishing: Revolutionary road". Livemint & The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2014-02-11.
- ^ Prajwala Hegde, ‘’A masterpiece all the way’’ The New Indian Express, 27/03/2012.
- ^ What we read in 2012 in Live mint & The Wall Street Journal, 28 December 2012.
- ^ Pullin, Eric D. (2011). "'Money Does Not Make Any Difference to the Opinions That We Hold': India, the CIA, and the Congress for Cultural Freedom, 1951–58". Intelligence and National Security. 26 (2–3): 377–398. doi:10.1080/02684527.2011.559325.
- ^ The best of Quest, edited by Achal Prabhala, Laeeq Futehally and Arshia Sattar, Publisher Tranquebar, India, 2011; list of reviews http://thebestofquest.tumblr.com.
Bibliography
- The Best of Quest, edited by Achal Prabhala, Laeeq Futehally and Arshia Sattar, Publisher Tranquebar, India, 2011.