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'''''Quest''''' is a quarterly and bimonthly [[India]]n journal published between 1954 and 1975 and featuring 20 years of independent India’s publishing history.<ref>Prajwala Hegde, ‘’[http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/bangalore/article461623.ece?service=print A masterpiece all the way]’’ ''The New Indian Express'', 27 March 2012.</ref><br />
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==History==<br />
The publication was founded in 1954 and ceased in 1975 when the government of [[Indira Gandhi]] declared in [[The Emergency (India)|Indian national emergency]]. It was a product of the [[Cold War]]<ref>''[http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/P8VNTFAI1AMjN4oL9tPyKK/What-we-read-in-2012.html What we read in 2012]'' in Live mint & [[The Wall Street Journal]], 28 December 2012.</ref> and was created by the [[Central Intelligence Agency]]. The creation of the ICCF was led by Minoo Masani who emphasised politics, drew the ire of Jawaharlal Nehru and ran into troubles with another publications called ''Freedom First''. The publisher and secretary Narie Oliaji, resigned, complaining that Masani was a political polemicist lacking the ‘intelligence and zeal to represent the Indian anti-communist intelligentsia’. In 1954 Nicolas Nabokov, the Secretary General of the Congress for Cultural Freedom met Masani and ordered him to separate the cultural and political movements and to gain more support and respect from Indian intellectuals through the creation of a journal, which would be named ''Quest'' and devoted exclusively to cultural matters.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Intelligence and National Security|volume=26|issue=2-3|year=2011|title=‘Money Does Not Make Any Difference to the Opinions That We Hold’: India, the CIA, and the Congress for Cultural Freedom, 1951–58|doi=10.1080/02684527.2011.559325|author=Pullin, Eric D.|pages=377–398}}</ref> During its twenty years of history it featured essays, fiction and poetry from writers such as [[Nirad Chaudhuri]], [[Dilip Chitre]], [[Allen Ginsberg]], [[Jyotirmoy Datta]], [[Mujibur Rehman]], [[Agha Shahid Ali]], [[Jayanta Mahapatra]] [[Dom Moraes]], [[Ashis Nandy]], [[Gauri Deshpande]], [[Adil Jussawalla]], [[Mahapatra]], [[A.K. Ramanujan]], [[Saleem Peeradina]], [[Arun Kolatkar]], [[Dilip Chitre]], [[Keki Daruwalla]], [[Anita Desai]], [[Kiran Nagarkar]] and [[Abraham Eraly]].<ref name=live/><br />
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==Legacy==<br />
In 1966, a selection of articles were produced as ''Ten years of Quest'' edited by Abu Sayeed Ayyub and Amlan Datta.<!-- http://freedomfirst.in/freedom-first/about-quest.aspx --> In 2011 a selection of articles was republished as ''The best of Quest''.<ref name=live>{{cite web|title=Publishing: Revolutionary road|work=Livemint|url= http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/RrKacUU0YX1wDAsifQzAeM/Publishing--Revolutionary-road.html|author=Supriya Nair|date=12 November 2011| access-date=11 February 2014}}</ref><br />
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*''The Best of Quest'', edited by Achal Prabhala, Laeeq Futehally and Arshia Sattar, Publisher Tranquebar, India, 2011.<br />
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