: Imagine this: India’s only Chinese-language newspaper, in Marxist Kolkata, shut down because of union problems. This ultimate irony appears to have come true, yet another sign that Kolkata is turning a lighter shade of red.
If an aggressive workforce seems to be the immediate provocation for the board of trustees to close down the Chinese Journal of India, its antecedents lie in slow and steady circulation drop caused by a dwindling Chinese population, a funds crunch and, above all, a perceptible indifference among the community’s younger generation to read and write in their native script.