Thread by @amitangshu

"Anustup"/ "অনুষ্টুপ" is a 54 year old independent #Bengali literary & cultural journal (ISSN: 0974-2697). It is now officially recognized by @ugc_india on their list of approved journals. Scholars publishing in #Bangla/#বাংলা pls consider subscribing & publishing. cc @maitreesh

Regional language journals are dying across #India. Anustup doesn't even have a decent website because it doesn't have resources. It will only sustain if more people subscribe to it. Please write to Anustup at [e-mail]

And the list of people who have published in this journal will surprise you. It includes (late) Ritwick Ghatak, (late) Hemango Biswas, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Arindam Chakrabarti, Partha Chatterjee, Maitreesh Ghatak, and many others. So do engage!

In fact, I can only wish that the story of Anustup - birthed in the #Bengali #little #magazine movement draws attention to a wider audience. I don't know how long it will continue. It is being run by a tired old man with money from his pension, who just refuses to give up.

He is 73 years old, and he will still land up at the office in the serpentine Nabin Kundu lane, even during a Covid-19 crisis, because he can't survive without the smell of ink and paper. We keep telling him to stop but he won't.