Gentleman (magazine)

*Gentleman*
	File:Gentlemancover.jpg Cover dated October 1999. Essential Listening -A Collector's issue.
Editor	Sambit Bal
Categories	Indian magazines
Frequency	Monthly
Publisher	Express Publications (Madurai) Ltd
Year founded	1980
Final issue	2001
Company	Indian Express Group
Country	India
Language	English

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Gentleman was an English language literary magazine published in India from 1980 to 2001.^[1]^[2] Its founder-editor was Minhaz Merchant^[3] of the Sterling Publications, which sold this and other magazines to the Indian Express Group in 1987. It was edited and published by Sambit Bal and Rajib Sarkar.

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[edit]

The magazine featured 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 'men's' 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. Most of the issues had a cover theme, for instance: "36 Most Under-rated Movies", and "Nine tomorrows" (a science fiction issue) and included articles from guest contributors.

Writers[edit]

Gentleman 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:

Shashi Tharoor
Ayesha Banerjee
Romola Butalia
Anurag Mathur
Atul Dev
David Davidar
Harish C. Mehta
Pradeep Sebastian (Entertainment Editor)
Madhu Kishwar
Shailaja Bajpai
Jaideep Varma
Rohit Gupta
Farzana Versey
Varsha Bhosle
Premnath Nair (Deputy Editor)
Amit Varma
Baiju Parthan
Ajit Duara
Niranjan Kaushik
Jeet Thayil
Leslie Mathew
Dibyojyoti Haldar
Prashant C Trikannad (Assistant Editor)
Simran Shroff (Features Editor)

Illustrators[edit]

Sarnath Banerjee^[4]
George Mathen^[5]
Manjula Padmanabhan

References[edit]

↑ Jebbit
↑ The Gazette^{[permanent dead link]}
↑ Gita Piramal. Business Maharajas. Penguin Books India. p. 27. ISBN 978-0-14-341583-1. Retrieved 4 August 2013.
↑ Express India
↑ George Mathen

[1] Jebbit

[2] The Gazette^{[permanent dead link]}

[3] Gita Piramal. Business Maharajas. Penguin Books India. p. 27. ISBN 978-0-14-341583-1. Retrieved 4 August 2013.

[4] Express India

[5] George Mathen

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