Aneek Special Issue on “Social Revolution and Armed Struggle”
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.
Liberation archives
Liberation archives are also available at http://sanhati.com/liberation/
Archivists: Soumya Guhathakurta, Sarita Dhawan, and Dhiman Chatterjee, Sanhati
Update October 8: March 1968, April 1968, June 1968
Update August 29: December 1967, November 1969, December 1969, January 1970, February 1970
Update July 31: First Issue - November, 1967; July, 1968; August, 1968; September 1968; October, 1968.
About Liberation
Liberation, the monthly central organ of the undivided Communist Party of India (Marxist - Leninist) (CPIML), was first published in November 1967. Through intense state repression and terror perpetrated by various political parties, the monthly continued to be published except for a brief hiatus in the early 1970s.
Issues of the monthly will be archived here till 1972.
While studies of the Naxalbari movement have continued over the decades, there has been a conspicuous lack of widespread availability of the literature of its main protagonist, the CPIML. Through this archive, we hope to fill this lacuna, thus enriching the debate for scholars and activists alike.
The archival material has been sourced from the personal collection of Suniti Ghosh, Central Committee member of pre-split CPI(ML).
Now Archives
Now archives are also available at http://sanhati.com/now_archives/
Archivist: Soumya Guhathakurta, Sanhati
Updated June 27, 2008: March 24 1967, March 31 1967, April 7 1967
Updated March 30, 2008: August 12 1966, August 19 1966, August 26 1966, September 2 1966
Updated March 22, 2008: August 5 1966, July 29 1966, July 22 1966, July 15 1966, May 27, 1966
About Now
In 1964 Samar Sen quit Hindustan Standard, the now defunct Calcutta English daily from Anandabazar group of publications stable, over a disagreement with the group about the carrying of news about communal disturbances in East Pakistan. Union Minister Professor Humayun Kabir approached Samar Sen with the job to edit a weekly with the objective of strengthening democracy, secularism etc. Thus was born Now and the first issue hit the stands in October 1964. Those who assisted in editing the weekly and writing columns included names like Nityapriya Ghosh, Niranjan Mazumdar (The Statesman, Calcutta), Shankar Ghosh (senior journalist known for his memoirs Hostantor), Ashok Mitra (previously minister in the Left Front regime), Amalendu Dasgupta (editor of The Statesman, Calcutta), Nayan Chanda (now at Yale and author of Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers and Warriors Shaped Globalisation ), Kunal Bose (Financial Times, London) and Jayanta Sarkar (The Economic times & F E E review).
Initially, the issues of Now were an agglomeration of writings of famous and infamous scribes, both from India and abroad. A distinct left slant to the weekly was provided by some of the edit writers, notably Ashok Mitra. This was a cause for discomfort to Prof. Kabir which he expressed in his correspondence, but he never interfered with the matter that the weekly carried in print. However, this attitude of Prof. Kabir began to change with the 1967 assembly election and the coming to power of the Bangla Congress and CPI(M) led United Front. Post 1967 elections Now supported CPI(M). However, CPI(M)’s stance after the peasant uprising at Naxalbari, expulsion of dissidents and the attitude of holding on to power by means fair or foul disillusioned Samar Sen. The first United Front Government collapsed under the weight of its own contradictions and a few days later a letter of dismissal was served to the editor of Now. Samar Sen left Now in 1968 and the weekly, under a new editor, folded up after a few issues.
Among others to write for Now were Nirad C. Chaudhuri , Lindsay Emmerson (The Statesman, Calcutta), Kingsley Martin (editor, New Statesman). Now was the first to carry a translation of Sukumar Ray’s verse by Satyajit Ray. The entire team of writers from Now followed Samar Sen to Frontier (which hit the stands in April 1968) save a few like Nirad C. Chaudhuri and Kingsley Martin.
Frontier archives at Sanhati
Frontier archives are also available at http://sanhati.com/frontier_archives/
Archivist: Soumya Guhathakurta, Sanhati
Current issues of Frontier, from the present and going back to 2006, as well as a partial archive from 1968, are available here.
Update: March 17, 2008: January 4 1975, January 11 1975, February 22 1975, March 8 1975, October 18 1975, October 25 1975
Update: February 26, 2008: Special Autumn issue 1974, 20 July 1974, 27 July 1974, 3 August 1974, 10 August 1974, 17 August 1974, 7 September 1974
Update: February 12, 2008. New Issues: 3 November 1973, 10 November 1973, 8 December 1973, 19 January 1974, 26 January 1974, 23 March 1974, 13 April 1974, 20 April 1974, 13 July 1974
Update: January 30, 2008. New issues: 7 April 1973, 12 May1973, 19 May1973, 26 May1973, 02 June1973, 23 June 1973, 7 July 1973, 29 Sept 1973, 20 Oct 1973
Update: January 20, 2008. New issues: July 27 1968, February 3 1973, September 1 1973.
Update: January 12, 2008. New issues: July 13 1968, July 20 1968, September 21 1968, December 21 1968, May 17 1969.
Singur - An update, post land-acquisition, from APDR and Manthan
August, 2007
This extensive fact-finding report on Dobadi village in Singur covers the following: (1) Dobadi before Tata’s fences came up (2) Dobadi after Tata’s fences came up, with details of Ruidaspara, Madhyapara, Beraberi Purbapara (3) Present economic condition of Khetmajoor by name, amount in debt, and amount of work available. APDR reports that one of its stated aims is to prevent another Amlashol in Singur.
Click here to read Manthan report [PDF, Bengali, 223KB] »
Click here to read APDR report [PDF, Bengali, 51KB] »
Click here to read report on Khetmajoor [PDF, Bengali, 105KB] »
Map of Dobadi [PDF, 84KB] »
BAOS issue 1 - Be Aware of Surroundings - A magazine by students
Shesh Abhibadan - by Raktim
Bhabte pari, kintu keno bhabbo - Rikrudro
Kabita Niye - Rikrudro
Duti Kabita - Samraggi
14th March, 2007 - Raj
Nandigram Fact-finding Report - Siddhartha
Anti SEZ movement in Raigarh - the Nandigram Effect - Sushovan
Amnesty International Statement on Jagatsinghpur - Siddhartha
Juddhokhetro theke - Sanmit
Bishwayon, Unnoyon, o Bamfront - Writwik
Orkut theke bolchhi - Sarosij
Click here to read BAOS, issue 1 [PDF, 3 MB]
Aneek March 2007 Issue
Kendriyo Budget 2006-2007 - Ratan Khasnabis
Uttar Pradeshe Agami Nirbachon - Hiranmoy Dhar
Haripurey Paramanu Bidyut Kendra - Mita Dutta
Iraq-er Por Iran? - Sucharita Sen
Protirodh - Kalinga Nagar - Basab Ghosh
Rajniti-te Younus - Badruddin Umar
Bhumi Sanskar Ain - Bargadar - Pranab De
Samsur Rahman - Jibon o Kabya - Iraban Basuray
Singur-Nandigram - Patrika, Boi, CD - Nilkantha Ray
Nandigram-er Abhigyata - Sumit Sinha
Sobsadhana/Bahiragata - Sankha Ghosh
Email: aneek64@gmail.com
Editors - Dipankar Chakraborty and Ratan Khasnabis. Address to send funds : Peoples Book Society, 12C Bankim Chatterjee Street, Calcutta 700073.
Address to send articles and letters : Dipankar Chakraborty, Shyam Bihar - Block 5, Flat 1D. Raghunathpur. Calcutta 700059. Phone : 2579-9666.
Office: 11, Raja Rammohan Sarani, Calcutta 700009. (Tuesday evenings 7 pm - 8:30 pm).
Click here to read Anik, March 2007 Issue [PDF, 7 MB]
Ekak Matra - Issue on Land Acquisition - November 2006
Kalponic Pujibadi Bikash Dharona - by Debdas Bandyopadhyay
Shashok Bamponthider Gramin Bhitti Dhoni Chashi - by Debabrata Bandyopadhyay
Sapto Purush Jethay Manush - by Goutam Ray
Roilo Patit Abad Korle… - Achin Chakraborty
Ak Sorkari Krishok Netar Shonge Singur Niye Sanlap - by Subhendu Dasgupta
Silpayon O Bamponthar Sankat - by Ratan Khashnabis
Parinati Ki JatiyotaPanthi Samajbaad - by Sarbajit Sengupta
Uchhed Michhil - by Soumen Nag
Click here to read Ekak Matra [PDF, 29 pages]
Email: ekakmatra@yahoo.com
Editor : Anindya Bhattacharya. Letters and Contact : A E-520, Salt Lake, Kolkata 700064. Phone : 2359-8162, 98302-36076, 2402-8091. Direct Contact : Asis Das, 150 Muktarambabu Street, Kolkata 07. Phone : 98304-93239.
Manthan - April 2007 Issue on land acquisition issues throughout Bengal
Nandigram articles : Osmanchok theke Meyera Bolchhi - voices of female resistance fighters. Arai Masher Juddho - A microscopic look at events and dates as they unfolded. Jokhon Somaj Uthey Dariyechhe Protirodhe - an intimate look at the resistance. Nandigramer Nijosyo Silpayoner Itihas - a detailed look at local industry. Tebhagar Nandigram - A Political History of Nandigram in the 1940s. Singur o Nandigram - Citizens Committee Report
Haldia and Haripur Articles : Silponagori Haldia, Aktukro Abhigyata. Haripur Abong Paramanu Bidyut Kendra , A detailed timeline of Haripur Resistance.
Analytical Articles and International Affairs: - Silper Jonyo Krishijomi Adhigrohon Bishoye interactive session by Ashoke Sen, Indian Radical Humanist Association. Dakhal Andolon - A look at Iraq and Argentina in the background of imperialism. Seattle Byarthota - on the WTO protests in Seattle, 1999.
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But, Is It “Development”? This ‘Development’ & “SHILPAYAN” Drive of The CPI(M) Led Govt In Singur, Bangur etc
By S. Das , For A Proletarian Party Journal
Here we want to discuss the very question of Development as being proposed by them for WB from revolutionary proletarian perspective. Though ‘development’ in general as propounded by the Indian bourgeoisie, the govt at the centre and those in the states, and parties like the CPI (M), is an important subject to confront, and an urgent one, to save time and space we’ll only probe the issue partially. Next we shall see what is development in proper that the people needs.
Report on Nandigram from Manthan Samayiki - Bengali little magazine
We, associated with a Bengali bi-monthly little magazine, ‘Manthan Samayiki’, went Nandigram three times during January to March. Being the residents of Metiabruj in Kolkata, we are neighbored by the people involved in garment industry, a community-based industry of muslim bengalees. Thousands of male villagers (about seventy-five thousand, according to Morsalin Molla, MLA, Mahestala, South 24 Parganas) from Nandigram block stay in Metiabruz and around temporarily for working in the community garment industry. We went Nandigram each time along with these people. We visited there on 18th January, 17-18 March and 27-29 March 2007. We travelled within Nandigram by bicycles and van-rickshaw.
