The result was an interview brimming with drollery and repartee, as they talked about the rumours of a Beatles reunion, the future of rock music, and life with the Wings.
At one point, Mr Mohammed asked McCartney whether his music was becoming increasingly commercial.
At one point, Mr Mohammed asked McCartney whether his music was becoming increasingly commercial.
The freewheeling McCartney “scoop” epitomised JS, derived from Junior Statesman, a pathbreaking sibling to a prominent and upstart Kolkata-based (then Calcutta) newspaper. “Anyone who was a teenager in India between 1967 and 1977 will not need persuading about the extraordinary impact that JS had on their generation,” Shashi Tharoor, MP and author, told me.
Mr Tharoor should know. He made his writing debut at the age of 11 with a six-part World War Two adventure in JS, earning a “princely sum” of 50 rupees. “I still meet middle-aged matrons who wax eloquently about the magazine, including people who can quote back at me from memory things I’d forgotten I’d written.”
When JS exploded onto the scene in February 1967, featuring The Beatles on its first cover, it quickly captured the zeitgeist of the urban youth of a nation grappling with shortages, rising prices, and joblessness. It was a grim and austere time. There was no TV, save a lone, uninspiring black-and-white channel; the young read books and listened to music, while most papers and magazines were pedantic and mundane.
Under the leadership of Desmond Doig, an India-born Anglo-Irish artist and writer, and previously a roving reporter for The Statesman, JS magazine was run by a bunch of enthusiastic college graduates. It swiftly gained a reputation as an irreverent, chatty, insightful magazine, always engaged with its reader.
At one point, Mr Mohammed asked McCartney whether his music was becoming increasingly commercial.
The result was an interview brimming with drollery and repartee, as they talked about the rumours of a Beatles reunion, the future of rock music, and life with the Wings.
The freewheeling McCartney “scoop” epitomised JS, derived from Junior Statesman, a pathbreaking sibling to a prominent and upstart Kolkata-based (then Calcutta) newspaper. “Anyone who was a teenager in India between 1967 and 1977 will not need persuading about the extraordinary impact that JS had on their generation,” Shashi Tharoor, MP and author, told me.
At one point, Mr Mohammed asked McCartney whether his music was becoming increasingly commercial.
At one point, Mr Mohammed asked McCartney whether his music was becoming increasingly commercial.
The freewheeling McCartney “scoop” epitomised JS, derived from Junior Statesman, a pathbreaking sibling to a prominent and upstart Kolkata-based (then Calcutta) newspaper. “Anyone who was a teenager in India between 1967 and 1977 will not need persuading about the extraordinary impact that JS had on their generation,” Shashi Tharoor, MP and author, told me.
Mr Tharoor should know. He made his writing debut at the age of 11 with a six-part World War Two adventure in JS, earning a “princely sum” of 50 rupees. “I still meet middle-aged matrons who wax eloquently about the magazine, including people who can quote back at me from memory things I’d forgotten I’d written.”
When JS exploded onto the scene in February 1967, featuring The Beatles on its first cover, it quickly captured the zeitgeist of the urban youth of a nation grappling with shortages, rising prices, and joblessness. It was a grim and austere time. There was no TV, save a lone, uninspiring black-and-white channel; the young read books and listened to music, while most papers and magazines were pedantic and mundane.
Under the leadership of Desmond Doig, an India-born Anglo-Irish artist and writer, and previously a roving reporter for The Statesman, JS magazine was run by a bunch of enthusiastic college graduates. It swiftly gained a reputation as an irreverent, chatty, insightful magazine, always engaged with its reader.
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