Desh (magazine)

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Desh
CompanyABP Group
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali
WebsiteOfficial website

Desh (

Ramon Magsaysay award winner Amitabha Chowdhury edited the magazine for quite some time after Sagarmoy Ghosh. Desh is published from 6 Prafulla Sarkar Street, Kolkata
700 001.

Desh is still considered to be the best literary magazine of the Bengali-speaking intelligentsia.[citation needed] It is often referred to as the "New Yorker of Bengal" [citation needed]. Almost all of the eminent authors and stalwarts of Bengali language and literature have sometimes or the other, written in Desh, from Rabindranath Tagore to Satyajit Ray, Mahasweta Devi, Sunil Gangopadhyay. The puja issue of Desh remains a major literary attraction in Bengali literature. The magazine is one of the oldest magazines in India.[citation needed]

Desh also has a sub-publication named Boier Desh (since 2003) where latest books in Bengali and English language are reviewed by well-known authors and critics. Boier Desh also carries with its every issue an interview of famous Bengali and International Literary personalities. Boier Desh is a quarterly magazine.[2]

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References

  1. . Retrieved 19 May 2010.
  2. ^ "Boier desh - Desh". www.desh.co.in. Retrieved 18 February 2021.