Little magazines have been an integral part of history of
Bengali literature. It is something more too-in fact, it is like a quaint little
world in itself. In their own quiet and unassuming ways, little magazines try
to provide some famous and mostly not so famous writers and their connoisseurs
a common platform to exchange their views and spread the wings of their
imagination. As the name suggests, little magazines are literally little in
their size, readership and promotion and probably lifespan too, 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 as also the fact that little magazines are as much a
part of Bengali literary movement as anything else. |
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