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{{Short description|Bengali editor}}
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{{Use Indian English|date=June 2018}}

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| known_for = Editor of ''Anustup'' literary magazine<ref name="Das 2008">{{cite news |last1=Das |first1=Soumitra |title=Little things mean a lot |url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080720/jsp/calcutta/story_9559837.jsp |access-date=25 April 2021 |work=The Telegraph India |date=July 20, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180711151952/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080720/jsp/calcutta/story_9559837.jsp |archive-date=July 11, 2018}}</ref><ref>''No Revolutionary but Editor of a Revolutionary Paper'' in ''Samar Sen''. Nityapriya Ghosh, Sahitya Akademi, 2001, p. 77.</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Dasgupta |first1=Priyanka |title=The New Golden Age |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/The-New-Golden-Age/articleshow/14538437.cms |access-date=25 April 2021 |work=The Times of India |date=July 1, 2012}}</ref>
| occupation = Essayist, writer, poet
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'''Anil Acharya''' ({{lang-bn|অনিল আচার্য}}) is an Indian [[Bengali people|Bengali]] scholar, essayist, short story writer and poet. In 1966, he founded the [[Bengali language|Bengali]] literary quarterly and [[Little magazine movement|little magazine]] ''Anustup''.<ref name=CalcuttaYellowPages>[http://www.calcuttayellowpages.com/adver/108702editors-profile.html Anustup website's profile of the editor. Retrieved on 9 September 2013]</ref>

==Education==
Acharya graduated with an honors degree in English literature from the [[Scottish Church College]].<ref>''Some Alumni of Scottish Church College'' in ''175th Year Commemoration Volume''. Scottish Church College, April 2008, p. 588.</ref> Thereafter he earned his master's degree in English literature from the University of Calcutta.

==Career==
Acharya taught English at [[Serampore College]], later becoming the departmental head and establishing the college's Communicative English programme.{{cn|date=May 2021}} His work has included the Collection, Collation, Digitalization of Texts and other Lingual Matter in the Corpora for the Bengali Language for The Secretary General Literature Arts National Culture & Educational Research Society, Kolkata.<ref>{{cite web |title=Grants in Aid for Year 2007-08 |url=https://www.ldcil.org/GIA2007-2008.aspx |website=Central Institute of Indian Languages |access-date=9 April 2021}}</ref>

He is a member of the Publisher and Bookseller's Guild, the organisers of the [[Kolkata Book Fair]], which is Asia's largest book fair and the most attended book fair in the world.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Acharya |first1=Anil |title=In this bazaar, cash flows thick & fast |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/In-this-bazaar-cash-flows-thick-fast/articleshow/35790849.cms |access-date=6 May 2021 |work=Times of India |date=January 29, 2003}}</ref>{{bsn|date=May 2021}} He was elected Secretary of the Guild for three successive terms, between 1996-1998, and during his tenure, the noted French Philosopher Jacques Derrida inaugurated the Kolkata Book Fair in 1997.

Since 1986, he was written and edited the quarterly journal, Anustup,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Acharya |first1=Anil |title=শঙ্খ ঘোষ যেন আজকের রাজাকেও প্রশ্ন করেন, বিচার দেবার আগে জেনে নাও প্রশ্ন করো তুমি কোন্ দল! |url=https://zeenews.india.com/bengali/kolkata/anil-acharya-recollects-the-personal-anecdotes-about-poet-shankho-ghosh_378614.html |access-date=27 April 2021 |work=Zee News Bengali |date=April 21, 2021 |quote='Anushtup' magazine was started in 1986.}}</ref> and has also founded an English language literary periodical for translated short stories from Bengali, called ''Harvest''. In 1970, he assisted the Australian director [[Paul Cox (director)|Paul Cox]] as the assistant director in making the documentary on Calcutta. He was also the associate producer of Paul Cox's film "Force of Destiny" released in 2014.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Windsor |first1=Harry |title='Force of Destiny': Melbourne Review |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/force-destiny-melbourne-review-815072 |access-date=14 April 2021 |work=Hollywood Reporter |date=August 13, 2015}}</ref> He is currently associated with St. Thomas' College of Engineering and Technology, Kolkata.<ref name=PaulCox>[http://www.paulcox.com.au/site/item.cfm?item=5FFF5055C29F442E670EB862A4A55DE9 Calcutta]{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

Between February 2013 and February 2015, he wrote a regular Sunday column in the Bengali newspaper 'Ei Somoy', called "Nipaatone Siddho".{{cn|date=May 2021}} It documented the myriad experiences that played out across four decades in the Bengali cultural and political landscape, and shaped Anustup and what it stands for.{{unclear-inline|date=May 2021}} He is also the author of the Bengali book titled "Parasmaipadi" which is a collection of his selected articles.

==Recognition==
In 2012, he was appointed as a ''Tagore National Scholar'' by the [[Ministry of Culture (India)|Ministry of Culture]] of the [[Government of India]].<ref name=NL>[http://www.nationallibrary.gov.in/nat_lib_stat/pdfs/NewsLetter%20Jan_Jun%202012.pdf National Library Kolkata newsletter]</ref>

==See also==
*[[Little magazine movement]]
*[[Kolkata Little Magazine Library And Research Center]]

==References==
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