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Contributors to the inaugural issue will include heavyweights like Naom Chomsky, Amartya Sen, Jhumpa Lahiri, Jatin Das, Martha Nussbaum, Ashish Nandy, Raj Kamal Jha, Krishna Sobti and Mrinal Pandey. (whew!) Certainly not one's idea of what an archetypal 'little' magazine should contain.

The monthly, 'The Little Magazine' edited by Antara Dev Sen (Amartya and Nabaneeta Dev Sen's daughter) will, hopefully, provide a welcome break from the routine ho-hum dirge that passes as news. The magazine promises to provide an 'alternative perspective' to staples like beauty, fashion, match fixing and assorted political shenanigans. We certainly hope so!

'The Little Magazine' is, in many ways, a watered down desi version of McSweeny's, the U.S. magazine that proudly proclaims it carries articles that are unpublishable elsewhere. Needless to add, McSweenys is a cult fave, a huge underground hit with the intelligentsia and others in the 'know'. Well, 'The Little Magazine' is certainly heading the McSweeny's way. It will be carrying a 10,000-word article on East Timor by Naom Chomsky! For those less inclined to sift through Chomsky, there will be lighter features like a photo feature on the Nagas, Ashish Nandy's look into Gandhi's relevance in varying social contexts, a look at the weird, whacky world of advertising.....and much more.

'The Little Magazine' is well produced and is reasonably priced at Rs. 40.

To subscribe or contribute:

The Little Magazine
708, Anand Lok,
Mayur Vihar-I,
Delhi-110091.

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