Porichoy Patrika archives
Porichoy Patrika archives are also available at http://sanhati.com/porichoy/
Archivists: Soumya Guhathakurta, Sarita Dhawan, Dhiman Chatterjee, Atreyi Dasgupta, Sanhati
Update November 9: 1955-56 Issues 7-12
Update October 26: 1955 Issues 1-6
Update September 20: 1953-54 Issues 7-12
Update September 16: 1952-53 Volume 2 (Issues 1 to 6)
Update August 15: 1951-52 Volume 1 (Issues 1 to 6), 1952-53 Volume 1 (Issues 1 to 6)
Update July 22: 1950-51 Volume 2 (Issues 1 to 6)
Update July 9: 1950-51 Volume 1 (Issues 1 to 6)
Update June 26: 1945-46 Volume 2 (Issues 5,6); 1946-47 Volume 2 (Issues 1 to 6); 1950 - January to June
Update June 10: 1945-46 Volume 1 (Issue`s 1-6) and Volume 2 (Issues 1-4)
Update May 23: 1936 Issues 1-6.
Update May 1: 1933 1st Issue, 1934 1st Issue
Update April 27: 1933 2nd Issue.
About Porichoy – The Early Phase
On his return from Europe in 1929, the poet Sudhindranath Dutta felt the need for starting a ‘review’. The purpose was to strengthen the bonds that Bengali literature had developed with literature of the world. The poet was promised help in this endeavor by friends who were established litterateurs or connoisseurs of the craft. Finance was arranged from family quarters. The editorial board of the ‘review’, which was named Porichoy, consisted of the likes of Charuchandra Datta, Satyendranath Bose, Subodhchandra Mukhopadhyay, Prabodhchandra Bagchi, Dhurjati Prasad Mukhopadhyay, Nirendranath Roy, Girijapati Bhattacharya and Sudhindranath Dutta. Very soon a circle of intellectuals in Calcutta clustered around Porichoy, including people like Abu Sayid Ayyub, Bishnu Dey, Hirendranath Mukhopadhyay, Annadashankar Ray, Budhadeva Bose and many more.
The first issue of Porichoy was published in 1931. From 1931 to 1936 Porichoy was a quarterly. From 1936 onwards Porichoy became a monthly. The second issue of Porichoy printed an adulatory note from Rabindranath Tagore to the editor. In fact, Tagore wrote poems, essays and book reviews for Porichoy during the period 1932 to 1942. The liberal Sudhindranath Dutta allowed the control of Porichoy to pass on to ‘Anti Fascist Writers Association’ in 1944. It may also be said that this signified the shift of the periodical’s control to Communists and their sympathizers. However, Porichoy always acknowkedged its intellectual debt to Sudhindranath Dutta and even as late as 2001 there was a special issue to commemorate the poet’s birth centenary.
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1931, Contents Page [PDF, Bengali, 2 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1931, 1st Issue [PDF, Bengali, 16 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1931, 2nd Issue [PDF, Bengali, 16 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1931, 3rd Issue [PDF, Bengali, 16 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1931, 4th Issue [PDF, Bengali, 16 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1932, 3rd Issue [PDF, Bengali, 16 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1932, 4th Issue [PDF, Bengali, 16 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1933, 1st Issue [PDF, Bengali, 16 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1933, 2nd Issue [PDF, Bengali, 16 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1933, 3rd Issue [PDF, Bengali, 16 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1933, 4th Issue [PDF, Bengali, 16 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1934, 1st Issue [PDF, Bengali, 16 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1936, 1st Issue [PDF, Bengali, 16 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1936, 2nd Issue [PDF, Bengali, 16 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1936, 3rd Issue [PDF, Bengali, 16 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1936, 4th Issue [PDF, Bengali, 16 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1936, 5th Issue [PDF, Bengali, 16 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1936, 6th Issue [PDF, Bengali, 16 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1945-46, 1st Volume, 1st Issue [PDF, Bengali, 8 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1945-46, 1st Volume, 2nd and 3rd Issues [PDF, Bengali, 13 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1945-46, 1st Volume, 4th Issue [PDF, Bengali, 8 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1945-46, 1st Volume, 5th Issue [PDF, Bengali, 8 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1945-46, 1st Volume, 6th Issue [PDF, Bengali, 8 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1945-46, 2nd Volume, 1st Issue [PDF, Bengali, 8 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1945-46, 2nd Volume, 2nd Issue [PDF, Bengali, 8 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1945-46, 2nd Volume, 3rd Issue [PDF, Bengali, 8 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1945-46, 2nd Volume, 4th Issue [PDF, Bengali, 8 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1945-46, 2nd Volume, 5th Issue [PDF, Bengali, 8 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1945-46, 2nd Volume, 6th Issue [PDF, Bengali, 8 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1946-47, 2nd Volume, 1st Issue [PDF, Bengali, 8 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1946-47, 2nd Volume, 2nd Issue [PDF, Bengali, 8 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1946-47, 2nd Volume, 3rd Issue [PDF, Bengali, 8 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1946-47, 2nd Volume, 4th, 5th, and 6th Issues [PDF, Bengali, 10 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, January 1950 [PDF, Bengali, 8 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, February 1950 [PDF, Bengali, 8 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, March 1950 [PDF, Bengali, 8 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, April 1950 [PDF, Bengali, 8 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, May and June 1950 [PDF, Bengali, 8 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1950-51, 1st Volume, 1st Issue [PDF, Bengali, 8 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1950-51, 1st Volume, 2nd Issue [PDF, Bengali, 8 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1950-51, 1st Volume, 3rd Issue [PDF, Bengali, 8 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1950-51, 1st Volume, 4th Issue [PDF, Bengali, 8 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1950-51, 1st Volume, 5th Issue [PDF, Bengali, 8 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1950-51, 1st Volume, 6th Issue [PDF, Bengali, 8 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1950-51, 2nd Volume, 1st Issue [PDF, Bengali, 8 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1950-51, 2nd Volume, 2nd Issue [PDF, Bengali, 8 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1950-51, 2nd Volume, 3rd and 4th Issues [PDF, Bengali, 14 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1950-51, 2nd Volume, 5th Issue [PDF, Bengali, 8 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1950-51, 2nd Volume, 6th Issue [PDF, Bengali, 8 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1951-52, 1st Volume, 1st Issue [PDF, Bengali, 8 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1951-52, 1st Volume, 2nd Issue [PDF, Bengali, 8 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1951-52, 1st Volume, 3rd Issue [PDF, Bengali, 8 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1951-52, 1st Volume, 4th Issue [PDF, Bengali, 8 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1951-52, 1st Volume, 5th Issue [PDF, Bengali, 8 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1951-52, 1st Volume, 6th Issue [PDF, Bengali, 8 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1952-53, 1st Volume, 1st Issue [PDF, Bengali, 16 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1952-53, 1st Volume, 2nd and 3rd Issues [PDF, Bengali, 16 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1952-53, 1st Volume, 4th Issue [PDF, Bengali, 8 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1952-53, 1st Volume, 5th Issue [PDF, Bengali, 8 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1952-53, 1st Volume, 6th Issue [PDF, Bengali, 8 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1952-53, 2nd Volume, 1st Issue [PDF, Bengali, 8 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1952-53, 2nd Volume, 2nd Issue [PDF, Bengali, 8 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1952-53, 2nd Volume, 3rd Issue [PDF, Bengali, 8 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1952-53, 2nd Volume, 4th Issue [PDF, Bengali, 8 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1952-53, 2nd Volume, 5th Issue [PDF, Bengali, 8 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1952-53, 2nd Volume, 6th Issue [PDF, Bengali, 8 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1953-54, 7th Issue [PDF, Bengali, 8 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1953-54, 8th Issue [PDF, Bengali, 8 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1953-54, 9th Issue [PDF, Bengali, 8 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1953-54, 10th Issue [PDF, Bengali, 8 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1953-54, 11th Issue [PDF, Bengali, 8 MB] »
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Click here to read Porichoy, 1953-54, 12th Issue [PDF, Bengali, 8 MB] »
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This issue has an article on Jibananda Das by Manindra Ray, an article ‘progoti shahittyo’ by Premchand.
Click here to read Porichoy, 1955, 1st Issue (Srabon, 1362) [PDF, Bengali, 9 MB] »
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This issue has an article on Jamini Ray by Asok Mitra (ICS), a review of Amiya Bhushan Mazumdar’s novel ‘Neel Bhuyan’ by Hiran Kumar Sanyal.
Click here to read Porichoy, 1955, 2nd Issue (Bhadro, 1362) [PDF, Bengali, 9 MB] »
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This issue has articles ‘ tontre’r utsho’ by Debiprasad Chattopadhyay, ‘Rabidranath Thakur er chhobi’ by Asok Mitra (ICS), an article on Thomas Mann by Saroj Acharya , a review of ‘Pather Panchali’ by Chidananda Dagupta , an array of short stories by Sulekha Sanyal, Manik Bandopadhyay, Dwipendranath Bandopadhyay and Vivekananda Mukhopadhyay’s experience of his travel through socialist Europe.
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This issue has an article ‘moddhyo jug er bharot ey jonota o rajniti’ by Asit Sen.
Click here to read Porichoy, 1955, 5th Issue (Agrahayan, 1362) [PDF, Bengali, 9 MB] »
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This issue has articles ‘bhawal er kobi gobindo das’ by Amiya Bhushan Chakravarty and ‘Jamini Ray o shilpo bichar’ by Bishnu Dey. The last page has a brief review of the annual ‘Ekota’ (edited by Tarun Sanyal) published by Calcutta University Students Union.
Click here to read Porichoy, 1956, 6th Issue (Poush, 1362) [PDF, Bengali, 10 MB] »
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This issue has the article ‘chirosthayee bondobost er shutropat’ by Ranajit Guha (who later founded the subaltern studies collective) and the play ‘thana theke aashchi’ (original by J B Priestley).
Click here to read Porichoy, 1956, 7th Issue (Magh, 1362) [PDF, Bengali, 9 MB] »
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This issue has the article ‘Madhusudan er kabyo-path er bhumika’ by Khetra Gupta.
Click here to read Porichoy, 1956, 8th Issue (Phalgun, 1362) [PDF, Bengali, 8 MB] »
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This issue has articles ‘rajyo, bhasha o shonshkriti’ by Gopal Haldar and ’shilpi saratchandra’ by Subir Raychaudhuri.
Click here to read Porichoy, 1956, 9th Issue (Choitro, 1362) [PDF, Bengali, 9 MB] »
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This issue has articles ‘Buddhang sharanang gacchami’ by Debiprasad Chattopadhyay, ‘Bongo shonskritir adhunik jug’ by Benoy Ghosh and the short story ‘Paari’ by Samaresh Bose (later filmed as ‘paar’ by Gautam Ghosh).
Click here to read Porichoy, 1956, 10th Issue (Baishakh, 1363) [PDF, Bengali, 13 MB] »
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This issue has the article ‘Arogyaniketan o boiggyanik chikitsha’ by Purnendu Kumar Chattopadhyay and the short story ‘Muhurto’ by Dwipendranath Bandopadhyay.
Click here to read Porichoy, 1956, 11th Issue (JaishTha, 1363) [PDF, Bengali, 9 MB] »
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This issue has the article ‘Aaraai haajaar bochor pore’ by Gopal Halder.
Click here to read Porichoy, 1956, 12th Issue (Aashaarh, 1363) [PDF, Bengali, 9 MB] »
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