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Frontline (ISSN 0970-1710)is a fortnightly English language magazine published by The Hindu Group of publications from Chennai, India. N. Ram is the Editor-in-Chief of the magazine. ISSN, or International Standard Serial Number, is the unique eight-digit number applied to a periodical publication including electronic serials. ... A fortnight is a unit of time equal to two weeks: that is 14 days, or literally 14 nights. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... The Hindu Group is a publishing organization located in Chennai. ... , “Madras” redirects here. ... Narasimhan Ram (born May 4, 1945), is an Indian journalist, who is Editor-in-chief of The Hindu since June 27, 2003. ...


As a current affairs magazine, it covers domestic and International news. Frontline gives a prominent place to various issues of development and hindrances in the Indian states. Apart from topics of political economy, it also covers a wide range of topics including Arts, books, cinema, Science and English language. The Politics series Politics Portal This box:      Political economy was the original term for the study of production, the acts of buying and selling, and their relationships to laws, customs and government. ...


Frontline is a bi-weekly current affairs magazine published from Chennai, India. It covers a wide range of topics including politics, political economy, Arts, books, cinema, Science and the English language. Belonging to The Hindu stable of publications, the magazine is regarded as having left-leaning editorializing views.

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Contributors and Perspective

Its regular contributors include known leftwing writers such as C.P. Chandrasekhar, Praful Bidwai, R.K.Raghavan, Jayati Ghosh and Bhaskar Ghose. Aijaz Ahmad, a Marxist literary critic and political analyst, also contributes occasional essays on various topics. Praful Bidwai (born 1949) is an Indian journalist, political analyst, and activist. ... Jayati Ghosh is Professor of Economics and currently also Chairperson at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. ... Aijaz Ahmad is a well-known Marxist literary theorist and political commentator based in India. ... Marxism is the political practice and social theory based on the works of Karl Marx, a 19th century philosopher, economist, journalist, and revolutionary, along with Friedrich Engels. ... Literature is literally an acquaintance with letters as in the first sense given in the Oxford English Dictionary (from the Latin littera meaning an individual written character (letter)). The term has, however, generally come to identify a collection of texts. ...


Frontline is noted for its serious coverage of issues.[1]The magazine has made it a point to analyse issues related to the working classes[2], the unorganized sectors, tribal regions[3], etc in India. The term working class is used to denote a social class. ... http://www. ...


Since, 1991, the magazine has opposed the economic reforms of successive governments comprising divestment[4] in state owned corporations, opening of areas like telecom and insurance to private and foreign players among others.


On the foreign news coverage front, the Frontline's worldview is dominated by what it claims is a strong anti-imperialist[5] [6][7] [8][9][10][11] [12] sentiment. Imperialism is the policy of extending the control or authority over foreign entities as a means of acquisition and/or maintenance of empires, either through direct territorial or through indirect methods of exerting control on the politics and/or economy of other countries. ...


Awards

Regular correspondent, Dionne Bunsha received the Ramnath Goenka Award in 2007 for outstanding reporting in the field of environment and books.[13] Journalist, P.Sainath, a frequent contributor to Frontline won the 2007 Ramon Magsaysay Award in the fields of creative arts, journalism and communication.[14] Ramnath Goenka ( रामनाथ गोयंका )(April 3, 1904 – October 5, 1991) was a freedom fighter and newspaper baron of India. ... A reporter is a type of journalist who researches and presents information in certain types of mass media. ... Palagummi Sainath (1957-), the 2007 winner of the Ramon Magsaysay award for journalism, literature, and creative communications arts, is an award winning Indian development journalist - a term he himself avoids, instead preferring to call himself a rural reporter or simply reporter - and photojournalist focusing on social problems, rural affairs, poverty... A frontline is a line of confrontation in an armed conflict, most often a war. ... The Ramon Magsaysay Award was established in April 1957 by the trustees of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) based in New York City. ...


Other journalists such as Asha Krishnakumar and Praveen Swami are also recipients of prestigious awards in journalism, such as the Lorenzo Natali prize.[15]


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See also

The Hindu Group is a publishing organization located in Chennai. ...

References

  1. ^ 'The Invisible Intellectual'. ZNET (March 11, 2004). Retrieved on 2007-07-27.
  2. ^ 'Weavers in Distress'. Frontline (August 07, 2002). Retrieved on 2007-08-16.
  3. ^ 'Tribal Issues'. Frontline (June 03, 2005). Retrieved on 2007-08-16.
  4. ^ 'Disinvestment Designs'. Frontline (June 04, 2005). Retrieved on 2007-08-16.
  5. ^ 'Iran: Imperialism's second strike'. Frontline (October 21, 2005). Retrieved on 2007-08-16.
  6. ^ 'A Timeless victory'. Frontline (November 15, 2005). Retrieved on 2007-09-26.
  7. ^ 'Fire in the plains, Fire in the mountains'. Frontline (January 15, 2006). Retrieved on 2007-09-26.
  8. ^ 'Morality and foreign policy'. Frontline (January 15, 2006). Retrieved on 2007-09-26.
  9. ^ 'Parallels in the past '. Frontline (May 09, 2003). Retrieved on 2007-09-26.
  10. ^ 'Reimposing the dollar hegemony '. Frontline (May 09, 2003). Retrieved on 2007-09-26.
  11. ^ 'THE IMPORTANCE OF CHOMSKY'S IDEAS'. Frontline (December 08, 2003). Retrieved on 2007-09-26.
  12. ^ 'The New War Against Terror'. Frontline (November 23, 2001). Retrieved on 2007-09-26.
  13. ^ Award for Bunsha. The Hindu (July 18, 2007). Retrieved on 2007-08-01.
  14. ^ Award for Sainath. The Hindu (August 01, 2007). Retrieved on 2007-08-01.
  15. ^ Awards for journalists. Frontline (August 29, 2003). Retrieved on 2007-08-01.

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