- Gentleman (magazine)
Infobox Magazine
title = Gentleman
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image_caption = April 1997 Gentleman magazine featuring actorNana patekar on the cover
editor = Sambit Bal
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frequency = Monthly
circulation = Not too big
category =Indian magazines
company = Indian Express Group
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firstdate =1980
country =India
language = English
website =
issn =Gentleman was an English language literary magazine published in India from 1980 to 2001. [http://jebbit.blogspot.com/] [http://thegazette.tripod.com/cgi-bin/get_article.pl?file=jun2000&art=15] It was initially owned by the Stirling Group of Magazines, which sold this and other magazines to the Indian Express Group in 1987. It was edited and published by
Rajib Sarkar andSambit Bal .Although, the name of the magazine suggested a male-oriented magazine, Gentleman was anything but. They had to stick to the name due to corporate red-tape, and as a relief, used the tagline "Gentleman: Mindspace for Men".
Features
The magazine featured a lot of hardcore intellectual content, and was the only such magazine in its genre in India at that time. It went beyond its ambit of being a "mens" magazine and published stories on current affairs, social issues, indepth journalism, crime, politics, food, music, movies, poetry, arts, fiction (including Comics) and personalities. Cover stories were highly acclaimed by the intellectual readers of the magazine. Some of the personalities featured in Cover Stories include Late President Zia of Pakistan and Late Rajiv Gandhi amongst others.
Most of their issues had a cover theme, for instance: "36 Most Under-rated Movies", and "Nine tomorrows" (a science fiction issue).
Writers
It groomed a set of journalists and writers who found an outlet and an audience for stories that might have otherwise been considered offbeat or 'alternative' by the Indian Mainstream media. Some names associated with Gentleman magazine were:
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Shashi Tharoor
*Ayesha Banerjee
*Romola Butalia
* Anurag Mathur
* Atul Dev
*David Davidar
*Harish Mehta
* Madhu Kishwar
* Shailaja Bajpai
*Jaideep Varma
*Rohit Gupta
*Farzana Versey
*Varsha Bhosle
* Premnath Nair
* Amit Varma
* Baiju Parthan
* Ajit Duara
* Jeet Thayil
* Leslie MathewIllustrators
*Sarnath Banerjee [http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=81863]
*George Mathen [http://www.georgemathen.com]External links
*Jaideep Varma's Blog, with his Great Songwriters and other music series published in Gentleman in 1999. [http://jebbit.blogspot.com/]
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