Hicky's Bengal Gazette
The Untold Story of India's First Newspaper

A timely, engrossing, and well-researched read about a fascinating figure. Otis’s writing and the dramatic conflicts from Hicky’s life kept me fully engaged in a topic I knew nothing about at the outset.......more

An excellent account of weal and woe of early modern Bengal, and particularly it's inhabitants - both European and Native. The author's description of Hicky's reports on the corruptions and scandals shows the fearlessly uncompromising principles underlying James Augustus Hicky's journalism and his d......more

I thought it was good, it was very easy to start reading but it took me a while to finish it. I think it's a good short story about one funny character in India. I like it overall.......more

#Binge Reviewing my previous Reads # Of Bengal There is a peculiar thrill in tracing the origins of journalism in India—not to the sober halls of policy or the dignified salons of intellectual debate, but to the sweaty, quarrelsome, scandal-filled lanes of colonial Calcutta in the late 18th century.......more

Hicky's Bengal Gazette brings to light a history so incredibly replete with drama that one would hesitate believing in its twists and its turns, had Otis not meticulously attached a sincere citation to each of them. As a Zoomer born and raised in the very city which is at the heart of this book, thi......more