Shanibarer Chithi

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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.

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History and profile

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]

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References

  1. 1 2 Chakrabarty, Dipesh (2004). "Romantic Archives: Literature and the Politics of Identity in Bengal". Critical Inquiry . 30 (3): 669. doi:10.1086/421165.
  2. ↑ Sharmily, Nawshin (2019). Mirroring universalism in Kazi Nazrul Islam: a humaniterian poet with distinctive style (BA thesis). BRAC University. p. 30. hdl:10361/15713.
  3. ↑ Chowdhury, Titas (28 May 2012). "'শনিবারের চিঠি'র নজরুল বিরোধিতার স্বরূপ". Jai Jai Din (in Bengali). Dhaka. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ "Sajanikanta Das". Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: A-Devo, Volume 1. Sahitya Akademi. 1987. pp. 878–879. ISBN   8126018038.
  6. ↑ 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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