Shanibarer Chithi
Shanibarer Chithi (meaning the Saturday Letter in English) was a monthly Bengali literary magazine published by Shaniranjan Press in Kolkata, India.[1] It was published between 1924 and 1962.
History and profile
[edit]It was founded in 1924 by Ashok Chattopadhyay as the conservative response to the progressive literary magazine Kallol which was founded a year ago.[1] Its first issue appeared on 26 July 1924.[2] The magazine started as a weekly publication and later became a monthly publication.[3] The magazine was one of the major satirical publications in India.[4] Sajanikanta Das joined the magazine from eleventh issue as the editor who made the magazine popular.[5]
Shanibarer Chithi ceased publication in 1962.[6]
Editors
[edit]- Jogananda Das
- Nirad Chandra Chaudhuri
- Sajanikanta Das
- Parimal Goswami
References
[edit]- ^ a b Chakrabarty, Dipesh (2004). "Romantic Archives: Literature and the Politics of Identity in Bengal". Critical Inquiry. 30 (3): 669. doi:10.1086/421165.
- ^ Sharmily, Nawshin (2019). Mirroring universalism in Kazi Nazrul Islam: a humaniterian poet with distinctive style (BA thesis). BRAC University. p. 30. hdl:10361/15713.
- ^ Chowdhury, Titas (28 May 2012). "'শনিবারের চিঠি'র নজরুল বিরোধিতার স্বরূপ". Jai Jai Din (in Bengali). Dhaka. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
- ^ Kunal Chakrabarti; Shubhra Chakrabarti (22 August 2013). Historical Dictionary of the Bengalis. Scarecrow Press. p. 147. ISBN 978-0-8108-8024-5. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
- ^ "Sajanikanta Das". Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: A-Devo, Volume 1. Sahitya Akademi. 1987. pp. 878–879. ISBN 8126018038.
- ^ Chowdhury, Asma (2015). India at the end of the British Raj: Autobiographical perceptions of Nirad C Chaudhuri (PhD thesis). University of Dhaka. p. 185.
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