Quest was a quarterly and bimonthly Indian journal published between 1954 and 1975 and featuring 20 years of independent India’s publishing history.[2]
In 1966, a selection of articles were produced as Ten years of Quest edited by Abu Sayeed Ayyub and Amlan Datta. In 2011 a selection of articles was republished as The best of Quest.[1]
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^ abcSupriya Nair (12 November 2011). "Publishing: Revolutionary road". Livemint. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
^Prajwala Hegde, ‘’’’ The New Indian Express, 27 March 2012.
^Whitney, Joel (15 March 2017). "How the CIA Sponsored Indian Magazines that Engaged the Country's Best Writers". The Wire (India).
^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.
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The Best of Quest, edited by Achal Prabhala, Laeeq Futehally and Arshia Sattar, Publisher Tranquebar, India, 2011.
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quest, indian, magazine, quest, quarterly, bimonthly, indian, journal, published, between, 1954, 1975, featuring, years, independent, india, publishing, history, questeditornissim, ezekiel, first, editor, frequencyquarterly, then, bimonthlycirculation3000, 400. Quest was a quarterly and bimonthly Indian journal published between 1954 and 1975 and featuring 20 years of independent India s publishing history 2 QuestEditorNissim Ezekiel first editor FrequencyQuarterly and then bimonthlyCirculation3000 4000 1 FounderCongress for Cultural Freedom CCF born in Berlin in 1950 and dissolved in 1975Founded1954Final issue1975CountryIndiaBased inMumbaiLanguageEnglish Contents 1 History 2 Legacy 3 References 4 BibliographyHistory editThe 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 It was published by the Congress for Cultural Freedom s Indian branch ICCF which was led by Minoo Masani and Jayaprakash Narayan 4 Masani s emphasis of politics drew the ire of Jawaharlal Nehru and ran into troubles with another publications called Freedom First The publisher and secretary Narie Oliaji resigned complaining that Masani was a political polemicist lacking the intelligence and zeal to represent the Indian anti communist intelligentsia In 1954 Nicolas Nabokov the Secretary General of the Congress for Cultural Freedom met Masani and ordered him to separate the cultural and political movements and to gain more support and respect from Indian intellectuals through the creation of a journal which would be named Quest and devoted exclusively to cultural matters 5 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 Arun Kolatkar Dilip Chitre Keki Daruwalla Anita Desai Kiran Nagarkar and Abraham Eraly 1 Legacy editIn 1966 a selection of articles were produced as Ten years of Quest edited by Abu Sayeed Ayyub and Amlan Datta In 2011 a selection of articles was republished as The best of Quest 1 References edit a b c Supriya Nair 12 November 2011 Publishing Revolutionary road Livemint Retrieved 11 February 2014 Prajwala Hegde A masterpiece all the way The New Indian Express 27 March 2012 What we read in 2012 in Live mint amp The Wall Street Journal 28 December 2012 Whitney Joel 15 March 2017 How the CIA Sponsored Indian Magazines that Engaged the Country s Best Writers The Wire India 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 Bibliography editThe Best of Quest edited by Achal Prabhala Laeeq Futehally and Arshia Sattar Publisher Tranquebar India 2011 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Quest Indian magazine amp oldid 1216850093, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
