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Little Magazine Movement
The little magazine movement originated in the 1950s and 1960s in many Indian languages like Bengali, Tamil, Marathi, Hindi, Malayalam, Assamese and Gujarati, in the early part of the 20th century. Gujarati Little Magazines It is difficult to determine exact number but it can be estimated that during 1950s and 1980s there emereged nearly 100 little magazines in Gujarati from highly influential ones like Kshitij by Suresh Joshi and Re (Zreaygh) by Labhshankar Thaker and others to lesser know Dalit little magazines like Aakrosh by Neerav Patel and Evolution of Dalit literature and women's literature can be credited to the Little Magazine Movements. Little magazine movement in Marathi Little magazines of 1955 to 1975 The avant-garde modernist poetry burst upon the Marathi literary world with the poetry of B. S. Mardhekar in the mid-forties. The period 1955–1975 in Marathi literature is dominated by the little magazine movement. It ushered in modernism and the Dalit Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Languages Of India
Languages of India belong to several list of language families, language families, the major ones being the Indo-Aryan languages spoken by 78.05% of Indian people, Indians and the Dravidian languages spoken by 19.64% of Indians; both families together are sometimes known as languages of South Asia, Indic languages. Languages spoken by the remaining 2.31% of the population belong to the Austroasiatic languages, Austroasiatic, Sino-Tibetan languages, Sino–Tibetan, Kra–Dai languages, Tai–Kadai, Andamanese languages, Andamanese, and a few other minor language families and language isolate, isolates. According to the People's Linguistic Survey of India, India has the Number of languages by country, second highest number of languages (780), after Papua New Guinea (Languages of Papua New Guinea, 840). ''Ethnologue'' lists a lower number of 456. Article 343 of the Constitution of India stated that the official language of the Union is Hindi in Devanagari script, with officia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Bhalchandra Nemade
Bhalchandra Vanaji Nemade (born 1938) is an Indian Marathi language writer, poet, critic and linguistic scholar. Beginning with his debut novel ''Kosala'', Nemade brought new dimensions to the world of Marathi literature. This was followed by a tetralogy consisting of novels ''Bidhar'', ''Hool'', ''Jareela'' and ''Jhool''. In 2013, Nemade published his magnum opus titled ''Hindu: Jagnyachi Samruddha Adgal'' () which is regarded as his masterpiece. Nemade is a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award as well as the Jnanapith Award, the highest literary honour in India. In 2013, he was awarded the Padma Shri. Life Bhalchandra Nemade was born on 27 May 1938 in the village of Sangavi in the Khandesh region of Maharashtra. After doing his matriculation, he moved to Pune, and received his BA from Fergusson College in Pune and MA in Linguistics from Deccan College in Pune and English Literature from the Mumbai University in Mumbai. He received PhD and D.Lit. degrees from North M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Kallol
''Kallol'' () refers to one of the most influential literary movements in Bengali literature, which can be placed approximately between 1923 and 1935. The name ''Kallol'' of the ''Kallol group'' derives from a magazine of the same name (which translates as 'the sound of waves' in Bengali). ''Kallol'' was the main mouthpiece for a group of young writers starting their careers around that time including Premendra Mitra, Kazi Nazrul Islam, and Buddhadeb Basu. A number of other magazines that followed ''Kallol'' can also be placed as part of the general movement. These include ''Uttara'' (1925), ''Pragati'' (1926), ''Kalikolom'' (1926), and ''Purbasha'' (1932). History In 1921, Gokulchandra Nag, Dineshranjan Das, Sunita Debi, and Manindralal Basu set up the "Four Arts Club" at Hazra Road in Kolkata to discuss and practice literature, painting, music, and drama. The four members published an anthology of short stories in 1922 named ''Jhorer Dola'' (). The Four Arts Club did not las ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Bengali Literature
Bengali literature () denotes the body of writings in the Bengali language and which covers Old Bengali, Middle Bengali and Modern Bengali with the changes through the passage of time and dynastic patronization or non-patronization. Bengali has developed over the course of roughly 1,400 years. If the emergence of the Bengali literature supposes to date back to roughly 650 AD, the development of Bengali literature claims to be 1600 years old. The earliest extant work in Bengali literature is the ''Charyapada'', a collection of Buddhist mystic songs in Old Bengali dating back to the 10th and 11th centuries. The timeline of Bengali literature is divided into three periods: ancient (650–1200), medieval (1200–1800) and modern (after 1800). Medieval Bengali literature consists of various poetic genres, including Hindu religious scriptures (e.g. Mangalkavya), Islamic epics (e.g. works of Syed Sultan and Abdul Hakim (poet), Abdul Hakim), Vaishnava texts (e.g. biographies of Chaitan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Pabitra Kumar Deka
Pabitra Kumar Deka (29 January 19405 January 2010) was a progressive writer, columnist, publisher and editor of monthly magazine Roopkar, film critic and screenwriter of the State of Assam in India. He is the winner of the Best Film Critic Award in 1988 from the Eastern India Motion Picture Association. The Government of Assam has instituted the State Best Film Critic Award in the name of ''Pabitra Kumar Deka Award'' from 2010 after his death. Early life and education He was born in the small town of Haibargaon in the district of Nagaon (Assam) to Shri Mahendra Nath Deka and Swarnalata Deka. Mahendra Nath Deka, son of Durgaprasad Deka, a farmer from village Kampur, was a government officer in the Veterinary Department. The family settled in Guwahati in the early 1960s as Mahendra Nath Deka was transferred to the then capital city Shillong and later to Guwahati. After his retirement from office, Mahendra Nath Deka started ''M.N. Deka Films'', a film distribution company, whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Bhupen Hazarika
Bhupen Hazarika (; 8 September 1926 – 5 November 2011), widely known as Sudha Kontho, was an Indian singer, songwriter, writer, filmmaker and politician from Assam. He has written songs mainly in the Assamese language, which are marked by humanity and universal brotherhood. His songs have been translated into many languages, most notably in Bengali and in Hindi. His songs, based on the themes of communal amity, universal justice and empathy, are especially popular among the people of Assam, West Bengal and Bangladesh. He is also acknowledged to have introduced the culture and folk music of Assam and Northeast India to Hindi cinema at the national level. He received the National Film Award for Best Music Direction in 1975, the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (1987), Padma Shri (1977), and Padma Bhushan (2001), Dada Saheb Phalke Award (1992), the highest award for cinema in India and Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship (2008), the highest award of the Sangeet Natak Akademi. He wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Saleel Wagh
Saleel Wagh is a Marathi poet, philosopher based in Pune Pune ( ; , ISO 15919, ISO: ), previously spelled in English as Poona (List of renamed Indian cities and states#Maharashtra, the official name until 1978), is a city in the state of Maharashtra in the Deccan Plateau, Deccan plateau in Western .... Biography Saleel Wagh a Marathi poet, was born in 1967 in Rajkot, Gujarat. He has 7 collections of poetry on his credit. His collections include ''Nivadak Kavita'' (1996), ''Sadhyachya Kavita'' (2005), ''Aadhichya Kavita'' (2007) a Marathi translation of a major Hindi poet Shamsher Bahadur Singh (1911–1993), ''Blog Pahila'', (a collection of critical articles on contemporary Marathi poetry), ''Racecourse aani Itar Kavita'' (2009), ''Junya Kavita'' (2010), ''UlatSulat'' (2011), ''Saheli Tijjan'' (2012), ''Talaleya Kavit'' (2018). His books ''Nivdak Kavita'' and ''Racecourse aani Iter Kavita,'' left deep impact on the contemporary Marathi literature, poetry in particula ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Sanjeev Khandekar
Sanjeev Khandekar is a reputed Marathi writer and visual artist based in Mumbai. Biography He was born in 1958. Kavita (Granthali, 1990) a collection of his early poetry and Search Engine (Granthali, 2004). These collections have been followed by three volumes of poetry - All that I Wanna Do (Abhida Nantar, 2005), Mutatis Mutandis (2006) and Two Poems (2006). His two books, '1,2,3... Happy Galaxy' and collection of present poetry 'Smiles' (2007) was published by Abhida Nantar in 2007. In 1982, he edited Sankalp: A collection of essays by social activists in Maharashtra. It was awarded the Marathi Sahitya Parishad award. His second book, the novel Ashant Parva (Season of Unrest, 1992), concerns itself with the construction of a politically sensitive self in post-industrial India. With his solo exhibition of watercolours, Rumour of the Truth (2003), held in Mumbai, Chennai and Delhi, Khandekar occasioned the arrival of his pictorial vocabulary. In 2004, his installation entitl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Hemant Divate
Hemant Divate is a Marathi poet, editor, translator and publisher based in Mumbai Mumbai ( ; ), also known as Bombay ( ; its official name until 1995), is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra. Mumbai is the financial capital and the most populous city proper of India with an estimated population of 12 .... Biography Hemant Divate is a poet, editor, publisher, translator and festival director. He is the author of eight poetry collections in Marathi. His most recent book in Marathi is Paranoia, awarded by Govt. of Maharashtra’s Kavi Keshavsut Purskar. Divate’s poems have been translated into 30 international languages. In translation, he has a book in Spanish, Irish, Arabic, German, Kannada and Estonian, apart from four in English. His poems figure in numerous anthologies in Marathi, English and Slovenian. He is the founder-editor of the Marathi little magazine ''Abhidha Nantar''. AbhidhaNantar has been credited for providing a solid platform ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Mangesh Narayanrao Kale
Mangesh Narayanrao Kale is an Indian poet, artist, and editor. Career As a journalist, Kale started his career with the Marathi daily paper ''Marathwada''. Later he started own daily, ''Khandesh Khandesh is a geographic region in Maharashtra, India. It was made up of present Jalgaon, Dhule and Nandurbar districts. It also said that Burhanpur District of Madhya Pradesh was also its part. The region have seen many geographical ch ...''. He is the editor of '' Khel'', a Marathi literary magazine that has been involved with the Marathi literary movement for over a decade. His published works include ''Mangesh Narayanrao Kalechi Kavita'' (2001), ''Shaktipatache Sutra'' (2004), ''Naal Tutalya Pratham Purushache Drishtaant'' (2007) and ''Thus, It's Just Shape Of Poem'' (2007, translated from the original Marathi). Bibliography *''Mangesh Narayanrao Kalechi Kavita'' (Marathi), 2001 *''Shaktipaatache Sutra'' (Marathi) 2004 *''Naal Tutelya Pratham Purushache Drishtaant'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Manya Joshi
Manya Joshi (born 17th July, 1972) is a Marathi poet based in Mumbai. He has a Master's in Marathi literature from Mumbai University and a Master's in Library and Information Studies from the University of Oklahoma The University of Oklahoma (OU) is a Public university, public research university in Norman, Oklahoma, United States. Founded in 1890, it had existed in Oklahoma Territory near Indian Territory for 17 years before the two territories became the ..., USA. He works as a freelance library research advisor and copywriter. He also writes short fiction and literary criticism. He is closely associated with the little magazine movement of the nineties, especially with the periodical '' Abhidhanantar''. His collection of poems ''Jyam Maja'' is published by Abhidhanantar Publications. The literary critic Sachin Ketkar in his introduction to ''Live Update: An Anthology of Recent Marathi Poetry'' writes, "He is one of the most experimental poets writing today. He represe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Abhidhanantar
''Abhidhanantar'' was a literary magazine in the Marathi language primarily devoted to poetry. It was edited by Hemant Divate, a noted Marathi poet and publisher. It started as a little magazine called ''Abhidha'' in 1992 and in 1998 it was named ''Abhidhanantar'' because of registration issues. It was discontinued in 2009. ''Abhidhanantar'', along with periodicals like ''Shabdavedh'', ''Saushthav'', ''Khel'' and ''Navakshar Darshan'' was in the tradition of the famous `little magazine movement’ in Marathi poetry pioneered by renowned poets like Dilip Chitre and Arun Kolatkar in the 1950s. The focus of this periodical was on the relationship between literature and globalization and it showcased the poetry which emerged from the social, cultural and linguistic crises brought about by globalization. ''Abhidhanantar'' was also honoured with the Maharashtra Foundation Award for its contributions to Marathi literature. Its significance lies in the fact that it provided a platform for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
