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Kindle Magazine was an English-language national journal being published online from Kolkata, India. The magazine 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.In 2013, the Kindle Magazine received a Special Jury AwardWEB, 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.,weblink 22 November 2014, from The Laadli Media and Advertising Awards for Gender Sensitivity.NEWS, Laadli awards for gender-sensitive given to 50 media-persons,weblink 12 April 2014, Business Standard, 20 December 2013,

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.WEB, The Magazine,weblink 2022-06-20, Kindle Magazine, en-US,

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.WEB, Kindle Magazine Interviews,weblink 22 November 2014, Kindle Magazine, 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.WEB, Poetry,weblink 22 November 2014, Kindle Magazine, It also publishes separate editorial, informational and creative content online, along with articles from its print issues.WEB, Politics and Society,weblink 22 November 2014, Kindle Magazine, The bulk of the content tends to be expository and analytic pieces.WEB, Arts & Culture,weblink 22 November 2014, Kindle Magazine,

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 peaceWEB,weblink Pakistan, India and the peace process: The way forward, 17 April 2014,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140419011643weblink">weblink 19 April 2014, dead, dmy-all, 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.WEB, Testimonials,weblink 2022-06-20, Kindle Magazine, en-US, 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.{{Citation |title=SB Veda Interviews Pritha Kejriwal - Part 1 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErlPofSwubo |language=en |access-date=2022-06-20}} 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.WEB, Home,weblink 2022-06-20, Kindle Magazine, en-US, In July 11, 2022, the official website Kindle Magazine was taken offline.WEB, Account Suspended,weblink 2022-07-11, kindlemag.in, No announcements were made, further suggesting that the magazine had shut its door for good. The website has since been reinstated,WEB, Home,weblink 2022-11-09, Kindle Magazine, en-US, but no new content has appeared since 2017.

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