Little
Magazines have been an integral part of
the history of Bengali literature. In their own quiet
and unassuming ways, little magazines try to provide
some famous and mostly not so famous yet talenter
writers and their connoisseurs a common platform to
exchange their views, spread the wings of their imagination
and raise their voice.
As the name suggests, little magazines are literally
little in many respet, but the effort behind them
have never been too little and neither have they been
short of imagination and inspiration. The relevance
of little magazines cannot be gauged by the size of
their readership but from the fact that little magazines
are epitomes of loud protests against commercial necessity
of zipping everything between two cover pages.
Kolkata Book Fair always being a special place
for such magazines, provides a separate pavilion,
where many hundreds of such little magazines from
various parts of Bengal and outside assemble together.
In this section we provide a list of contemporary
little magazines categorized on the basis of their
place of origin.
Click on the districts
below to see the details of magazines published from
there