Kindle Magazine

Kindle Magazine was an English-language national journal being published online from Kolkata, India, it was founded in 2008 by journalist Pritha Kejriwal (formerly from Hindustan Times and NDTV) and Kolkata-based CFA Maitreyi Kandoi. The journal placed special emphasis on long-form journalism focusing on socio-political and cultural issues .at global level.

Kindle Magazine
Kindle
Editor-in-ChiefPritha Kejriwal
Managing EditorMaitreyi Kandoi
CategoriesAnalytic Journalism, Politics, Social Issues, Economics, Arts, Science, Culture
PublisherInk Publications Pvt. Ltd.
FrequencyMonthly
CountryIndia
LanguageEnglish
Websitekindlemag.in
First IssueAugust, 2008
Last IssueMarch, 2017
Current StatusIn hiatus since March, 2017. End of Life as of July 11, 2022

In 2013, the Kindle Magazine received a Special Jury Award[1] from The Laadli Media and Advertising Awards for Gender Sensitivity.[2]

History

The magazine was launched in 2008 by journalist Pritha Kejriwal and Maitreyi Kandoi, a chartered financial analyst. It ran for 9 years and closed in 2017, the last published volume was dated March 2017 and featured a cover story on the recently deceased John Berger.[3]

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.[4] The interviews have featured Shyam Benegal, Zoe Heller, Dibakar Banerjee, Mychael Danna, 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.[5] It also publishes separate editorial, informational and creative content online, along with articles from its print issues.[6] The bulk of the content tends to be expository and analytic pieces.[7]

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[8] 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 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, bookstores, campuses and lounges across Kolkata. Kindle Magazine also conducts regular workshops with noted personalities on various subjects including, creative writing, theatre, debate etc.

Hiatus and possible end

Kindle Magazine ran uninterrupted since publication, producing scholarly works that consistently received positive critical reviews.[9] However, editor and co-founder Pritha Kejriwal had noted the inherent financial difficulties involved in publishing such journals in the era when print media in general has struggled with progressively decaying revenue sources.[10] While no explicit announcements were made by the publishers, the magazine has been inactive since early 2017. The latest available issue was published in March 2017.[11]

In July 11, 2022, the official website Kindle Magazine was taken offline.[12] No announcements were made, further suggesting that the magazine had shut its door for good. The website has since been reinstated,[13] but no new content has appeared since 2017.

References
  1. "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". Retrieved 22 November 2014.
  2. "Laadli awards for gender-sensitive given to 50 media-persons". Business Standard. 20 December 2013. Retrieved 12 April 2014.
  3. "The Magazine". Kindle Magazine. Retrieved 20 June 2022.
  4. "Kindle Magazine Interviews". Kindle Magazine. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
  5. "Poetry". Kindle Magazine. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
  6. "Politics and Society". Kindle Magazine. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
  7. "Arts & Culture". Kindle Magazine. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
  8. "Pakistan, India and the peace process: The way forward". Archived from the original on 19 April 2014. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
  9. "Testimonials". Kindle Magazine. Retrieved 20 June 2022.
  10. SB Veda Interviews Pritha Kejriwal - Part 1, retrieved 20 June 2022
  11. "Home". Kindle Magazine. Retrieved 20 June 2022.
  12. "Account Suspended". kindlemag.in. Retrieved 11 July 2022.
  13. "Home". Kindle Magazine. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
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