->Johnpacklambert at 20:33, 4 February 2021

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'''''Kindle Magazine''''' is an English language national journal being published online from [[Kolkata]], India, founded in 2008 by journalist Pritha Kejriwal (formerly of [[Hindustan Times]] and [[NDTV]]) and Kolkata-based CFA Maitreyi Kandoi. It is a journal with special emphasis on long-form journalism focusing on socio-political and cultural issues.

In 2013, Kindle Magazine received a Special Jury Award<ref>{{cite web|title=The Winners of the Laadli Media and Advertising Awards for Gender Sensitivity. In 2014, Kindle magazine published a book 'What the Jaguar knows we don't know' which pushes the boundaries to explore the limits of our knowledge. It also features pieces from the archives, penned down by writers like Gulzar, Kiran Nagarkar and Oscar Guardiola Rivera. It also includes conversations with Dipesh Chakrabarty, Noam Chomsky, Shyam Benegal, Sherry Turkle and Marcus Du Sautoy.|url=https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gOqKfsuyLaOPosnOl_erFVHiBVRzrgc3PhVzRUwUEdM/edit|accessdate=22 November 2014|publisher=docs.google.com}}</ref> from The Laadli Media and Advertising Awards for Gender Sensitivity.<ref>{{cite news|title=Laadli awards for gender-sensitive given to 50 media-persons|url=http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/laadli-awards-for-gender-sensitive-given-to-50-media-persons-113122000944_1.html|accessdate=12 April 2014|newspaper=[[Business Standard]]|date= 20 December 2013}}</ref>

== History ==
The magazine was launched in 2008, by [[journalist]] Pritha Kejriwal and Maitreyi Kandoi, a [[chartered financial analyst]].

== Impact ==
[[Noam Chomsky]] has said of Kindle, "The magazine has been a welcome regular source of lively and informative commentary and discussion."<ref>{{cite web|title=Testimonials |url=http://kindlemag.in/testimonials/|accessdate=22 November 2014|publisher=Kindle Magazine}}</ref> [[Shyam Benegal]] has praised it as "a refreshing change" in that it offers "perceptive, intelligent and thought provoking articles on subjects ranging from politics to literature to history and humanities in general. The best part of the magazine is that it challenges… the prevailing mainstream culture." Humanitarian activist [[Binayak Sen]] has noted that "During this short period, Kindle has set up a trend of taking up interesting and relevant issues and of dealing with them in a radical and rigorous fashion." Actor [[Farooq Sheikh]] said he has "rarely seen a magazine with a more well deserved and swift upward graph in terms of quality and reader acceptance."

== Content ==
The special issues typically follow a theme or a cover story around which much of the content is organized, and usually features at least one in-depth interview with a prominent scholar or policy specialist on the cover story subject.<ref>{{cite web| title= Kindle Magazine Interviews |url=http://kindlemag.in/category/the-mag/interviews/|accessdate=22 November 2014|publisher=Kindle Magazine}}</ref> The interviews have featured [[Shyam Benegal]], [[Zoe Heller]], [[Dibakar Banerjee]], [[Mychael Danna]], [[Ed Smith (cricketer)|Edward Smith]], [[Mallika Sarabhai]], and [[Shobha De]] amongst others. Regular issues carry other interviews and opinion pieces, photo essays and reviews of books, music, art or other cultural events. The magazine occasionally publishes poetry and short fiction.<ref>{{cite web|title = Poetry |url=http://kindlemag.in/category/the-mag/poetry/|accessdate=22 November 2014|publisher=Kindle Magazine}}</ref> It also publishes separate editorial, informational and creative content online, along with articles from its print issues.<ref>{{cite web|title = Politics and Society |url=http://kindlemag.in/category/the-mag/politics-society/|accessdate=22 November 2014|publisher=Kindle Magazine}}</ref> The bulk of the content tends to be expository and analytic pieces.<ref>{{cite web|title = Arts & Culture |url=http://kindlemag.in/category/the-mag/arts-culture/|accessdate=22 November 2014|publisher=Kindle Magazine}}</ref>

=== Contributors ===
Kindle Magazine publishes a number of regular columns, reported from Kolkata, Delhi, Chennai, Srinagar, Lahore, New York, London, Singapore, Tibet, Bangladesh, Africa and Latin America. Columnists include various authors and journalists like Oscar Guardiola Rivera, Azad Essa, Nitasha Kaul, Dibyesh Anand, Amit Sengupta, Saswat Pattanayak, Teresa Rehman, Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal, Debashree Dattaray, and Neel Adhikari. Other contributors include members of the editorial staff as well as frequent guest feature writers such as [[Adrian Levy]], Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, [[Gulzar]], [[Jeet Thayil]], [[K. Satchidanandan]], [[Annie Zaidi]], Jose Varghese, Brinda Bose, Poornima Joshi, [[Tabish Khair]], Sharanya Manivannan, [[Kiran Nagarkar]], Prof. [[Marcus du Sautoy]], [[Sarnath Banerjee]], amongst others.

== Events and community involvement ==
Kindle Magazine has conducted 2 Roundtable conferences in the [[Kolkata Town Hall]] on IndoPak peace<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://headlinesindia.mapsofindia.com/india-and-world/indo-pak-tensions/pakistan-india-and-the-peace-process-the-way-forward-58557.html# |title=Archived copy |access-date=17 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140419011643/http://headlinesindia.mapsofindia.com/india-and-world/indo-pak-tensions/pakistan-india-and-the-peace-process-the-way-forward-58557.html# |archive-date=19 April 2014 |url-status=dead|df=dmy-all }}</ref> and sedition respectively, featuring [[Mani Shankar Aiyar]], [[Farooq Sheikh]], [[Tarun Tejpal]], [[Aruna Roy]], [[Dr. Binayak Sen]], [[Anand Patwardhan]], [[Abhishek Singhvi]], [[Tarun Vijay]], Suhel Seth, [[Taimur Rahman]], and others. The magazine recently launched its first international documentary film festival titled ''Owlscope: X-rays of the Republic'' (5–8 April 2013) that showcased documentary screenings from around the world and were screened at theaters, book stores, campuses and lounges across Kolkata. Kindle Magazine also conducts regular workshops with noted personalities on various subjects including, creative writing, theatre, debate etc.

== References ==
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== External links ==
*{{official website}}
*http://tollywoodhamaka.com/news/owlscope-a-novel-effort-to-kindle-change.html
*{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130407/jsp/calcutta/story_16756881.jsp#.UWveWbVmy2o|title=Docu fest in city|publisher=telegraphindia.com|accessdate=12 May 2014}}

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->Johnpacklambert at 20:33, 4 February 2021