Little magazine movement

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The Little Magazine Movement is a literary movement of Literary magazines also known as Little magazines, which originated in the fifties and the sixties in many Indian languages like Tamil, Marathi, Hindi, Malayalam and Gujarati, as it did in the west, in the early part of the 19th century ^[1] ^[2] ^[3].

In Bengali literature, it started with Kallol, a modernist movement magazine, established in 1923. The most popular among the group were Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899 - 1976) and Mohitlal Majumder (1888-1952), Achintyakumar Sengupta (1903-1976), Satyendranath Dutta (1882-1922), Premendra Mitra (1904 - 1988) and others. Then Bengali poetry got into the brightest light of modernism in 1930s, through the movement of few other little magazines, such as Buddhadeb Bosu's Kabita and Sudhindranath Datta's Parichay.

The Little Magazine explosion in West Bengal took place after 1961 when the Hungry Generation Movement took the cultural establishment by storm. In fact it changed not only the publication gamut but also the naming of a magazine.

The Sahitya Akademi (Indian Academy of Letters) also publishes two literary journals, namely Indian Literature (journal) in English and Samkalin Bhartiya Sahitya in Hindi ^[4] A prime example of this continuing tradition is the The Little Magazine, published from New Delhi since May 2000 ^[5], Civil Lines and Yatra ^[6] .

[edit] Literary or little magazines in India

Abhiyakti - Hindi literary magazine Online.
Aanubhuti - Monthly Hindi poetry and literary magazine
Bharat Darshan - Hindi literary magazine ^[7]
Crimson Feet Magazine - Bimonthly journal for writers and poets from the Indian sub-continent ^[8].
Civil Lines - English literary magazine
Darpan - Literary Magazine.
Guruchandali - Bengali e-zine
HindiElm - Quarterly Hindi literary magazine
Hoowa 49 - Quarterly Bengali Magazine of changing poetry
Kahani - A South Asian literary magazine for children.
Maadhukari - Online Bengali literary magazine
Meghadutam - Online magazine on literature and poetry
Parabaas - a Bengali literary e-zine
Patrika - Online Bengali literary magazine
Punjabielm - Quarterly Punjabi literary magazine
Purwai - London based quarterly magazine on Indian languages
Sambit - Oriya literary magazine
The Brown Critique - Literary quarterly for Indian writings in English.
The Little Magazine - English literary magazine
Udgam - a literary Hindi magazine ^[9].
UrduElm - Quarterly literary magazine ^[10]
Utsab - Bengali literary magazine
Yugantar Punjab - online Punjabi literary magazine.