[Reader-list] Fwd: The Hindi Little Magazines

[Ravikant]

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Subject: first possting
Date: Thursday 27 Jan 2005 10:07 pm
From: "anurag prasad" <anujourn at hotmail.com>
To: dak at sarai.net
Cc: ravikant at sarai.net

Presently I am working in the Hindustan, New Delhi as sub-editor and
Assistant Editor in Bhartiya Lekhak on honorarium basis.

In the Bhartiya Lekhak series on Unusual Writers, I have written articles
on 'criminal' turned writer Sudhir Sharma, domestic servant turned writer, 
Baby Haldar and tea vendor in Delhi who is also a novelist - Lakshman Rao.

In the Sarai Fellowship project on the vast and unstable yet proliferating 
world of Laghu Patrikas, I will be addressing the following issues:
· Definition of a little magazine: difference between little magazine and 
commercial magazine
· their focus, area and mode of operation
· The origin of these magazines, a little bit of their long history, for 
example their role in the anti-colonial struggle, although my focus is 
basically the contemorary. 
· Contents published in these magazines;
· Economy of little magazine especially the strategy of producing Special 
Numbers
· Why noted writers have chosen to publish their own magazines?

To document and understand this world I will conduct extensive interviews with 
old and new editors, writers and their readers. I would love to hear from any 
of you. If you have favourites of your own, please let me know. 

Anurag
433, Nitikhand-III
Indrapuram, Ghaziabad
U.P.
Mobil- 9871344533

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