https://zinewiki.com/zinewiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=Vubrajok&feedformat=atomZineWiki - User contributions [en]2024-03-19T07:40:38ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.35.1https://zinewiki.com/zinewiki/index.php?title=Vattacharja_Chandan.&diff=29490Vattacharja Chandan.2009-08-16T20:47:07Z<p>Vubrajok: </p>
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<div>Vattacharja Chandan is a [[zinester]], writer and [[Mail Art|mail artist]].<br />
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His new innovative concepts of Prakalpana, Sarbangin Poetry, Chetanavyasism... and other terms and forms have been around the international independent literary [[zine]] scene for quite a long time. Apart from India, Bangladesh, Brazil, Italy ( ''Anterem, Offerta Speciale'' ) his work has also been published in the U.S.A. (''Generator, Absinthe, Cathay, Texture, Short Fuse, Drunken Boat'') and so and so. <br />
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'''Performance'''<br />
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He has performed poetry with or without music in countless occasions. His self-composed album of songs is ''Jug Jug Jio'' (Music Millennia, 1999). He has represented India at the Asian Literary Leaders Conference in Washington DC ,in 1997. He was felicitated by the Bengali Personality Conference at Dhaka in 2000 and by the Bangladesh Poets Foundation in 2004.<br />
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'''Upcoming Event'''<br />
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Among his next upcoming event is the [[PrakalpanA LitfesT]] on 6th September 2009 at Kolkata.<br />
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'''Who's Who'''<br />
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Indexed in several who's who books in India, Asia and the World including by Marquis, U.S.A..<br />
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'''On Going Project'''<br />
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A bilingual epic book of prakalpana entitled ''Cosmosphere''. The first part of the Bangla version: '''''Atiprithibi 1''''' is due out this year.<br />
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==Books==<br />
* ''I Won't be a Pet Bird'' (bilingual poetry book}.<br />
* ''Upsurging Prakalpana'' (edited bilingual prakalpana anthology).<br />
* ''Prakalpana Andoloner Istahar'' (manifesto of Prakalpana Movement}.<br />
* ''Byabiloner Shunya Bagane'' (poetry book).<br />
* ''Saral Karo: Valobasa'' (poetry book}.<br />
* ''Porimondal'' (prakalpana book). <br />
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and some others.<br />
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==Zines==<br />
*[[KOBISENA|KOBISENa]] (1972- ) <br />
*[[PrakalpanA LiteraturE|PrakalpanA Sahitya / PrakalpanA LiteraturE]] (1977- )<br />
*[[Swatotsar]] (1969-1975)<br />
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==External Links==<br />
*[http://chandan.writernetwork.com Vattacharja Chandan]<br />
*[http://vattacharjachandan.blogspot.com Prakalpana World]<br />
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[[Category:Zinester|Chandan]] [[Category:Artist|Chandan]]<br />
[[Category:Poet|Chandan]]</div>Vubrajokhttps://zinewiki.com/zinewiki/index.php?title=Vattacharja_Chandan.&diff=29489Vattacharja Chandan.2009-08-16T20:41:02Z<p>Vubrajok: </p>
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<div>Vattacharja Chandan is a [[zinester]], writer and [[Mail Art|mail artist]].<br />
<br />
His new innovative concepts of Prakalpana, Sarbangin Poetry, Chetanavyasism... and other terms and forms have been around the international independent literary [[zine]] scene for quite a long time. Apart from India, Bangladesh, Brazil, Italy ( ''Anterem, Offerta Speciale'' ) his work has also been published in the U.S.A. (''Generator, Absinthe, Cathay, Texture, Short Fuse, Drunken Boat'') and so and so. <br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Performance'''<br />
<br />
He has performed poetry with or without music in countless occasions. His self-composed album of songs is ''Jug Jug Jio'' (Music Millennia, 1999). He has represented India at the Asian Literary Leaders Conference in Washington DC ,in 1997. He was felicitated by the Bengali Personality Conference at Dhaka in 2000 and by the Bangladesh Poets Foundation in 2004.<br />
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<br />
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'''Upcoming Event'''<br />
<br />
Among his next upcoming event is the [[PrakalpanA LitfesT, 2009]] on 6th September at Kolkata.<br />
<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Who's Who'''<br />
<br />
Indexed in several who's who books in India, Asia and the World including by Marquis, U.S.A..<br />
<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
<br />
'''On Going Project'''<br />
<br />
A bilingual epic book of prakalpana entitled ''Cosmosphere''. The first part of the Bangla version: ''Atiprithibi'' is due out this year.<br />
<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
<br />
==Books==<br />
* ''I Won't be a Pet Bird'' (bilingual poetry book}.<br />
* ''Upsurging Prakalpana'' (edited bilingual prakalpana anthology).<br />
* ''Prakalpana Andoloner Istahar'' (manifesto of Prakalpana Movement}.<br />
* ''Byabiloner Shunya Bagane'' (poetry book).<br />
* ''Saral Karo: Valobasa'' (poetry book}.<br />
* ''Porimondal'' (prakalpana book). <br />
<br />
and some others.<br />
<br />
==Zines==<br />
*[[KOBISENA|KOBISENa]] (1972- ) <br />
*[[PrakalpanA LiteraturE|PrakalpanA Sahitya / PrakalpanA LiteraturE]] (1977- )<br />
*[[Swatotsar]] (1969-1975)<br />
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==External Links==<br />
*[http://chandan.writernetwork.com Vattacharja Chandan]<br />
*[http://vattacharjachandan.blogspot.com Prakalpana World]<br />
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[[Category:Zinester|Chandan]] [[Category:Artist|Chandan]]<br />
[[Category:Poet|Chandan]]</div>Vubrajokhttps://zinewiki.com/zinewiki/index.php?title=KOBISENA&diff=29488KOBISENA2009-08-16T20:19:53Z<p>Vubrajok: </p>
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<div>'''kOBISENa''' is a poetry [[zine]] by [[Vattacharja Chandan.|Vattacharja Chandan]].<br />
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Since the launch of the Prakalpana Movement through ''SwatotsaR'', which published writings in the new form of Prakalpana only, Vattacharja Chandan had been feeling the urgent need to propel a different kind of poetry which he called ''Sarbangin Poetry'' ( = wholesome poetry), that would aptly exploit the possibilities of various kinds of visual signs, symbols and pictures in the appropriate parts of a poetry, and yet would not be merely a poetry of concrete designs, patterns or structures; as it would mainly bank on the basic features, instincts, and values of poetry in texts and textures, merged in a new rhythm. This new rhythm which he later termed ''Flow Verse'', would not be simply the usual free verse, but like the natural flowing rhythm of life in harmony and disharmony, in concord and discord, and like the poetic + prosaic rhythm of life by rhyming + unrhyming in the suitable sectors of a wholesome Sarbangin Poetry as per the individual preference and prudence of the independent poet as a creator of the new age.<br />
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Accordingly to fulfill his dream of kOBISENa ( = troop of poets or ''Poetroop''), it was announced in an open convention of poets at Vidyasagar Hall in Kolkata in 1972 to float a new publication "Of the poetry By the poetry and For the poetry", named '''kOBISENa'''. The first issue was a 4 page hand composed bulletin published by Rabindra Bhattacharya and edited by Vattacharja Chandan, who has been continuing still today; however, the publisher has since disappeared from the non-trad zine scene. From the very beginning, because of its controversial and challenging nature, kOBISENa has never compromised its characteristic independence and so has been ignored and marginalized. Yet in spite of its sporadic outbursts it has travelled a lot amongst the poetry lovers in remote hamlets of the globe.<br />
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kOBISENa does not see poets but their poetry, it does not see if someone is a so-called published or unpublished poet, but it does see whether it is a traditional or nontraditional poetry, good poetry or bad poetry. So kOBISENa is still open to the non-famous young nowhere poets from anywhere and everywhere, only who care and share for Sarbangin and experimental poetry. In fact like [[PrakalpanA LiteraturE]], it too has published the first poetry of so many poets over all these years.<br />
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To know about how to participate in its Upcoming Event of Poetry Reading in any language any genre on 6th September this year in Kolkata India, from any part of the world, check out [[PrakalpanA LitfesT]] <br />
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Besides poetry, [[Mail Art]] has also a place here.<br />
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kOBISENa Has been reviewed by [[Factsheet Five]], Scavengers Newsletter, NHI Review online and [[Zine World]] among others.<br />
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==External Link==<br />
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[http://vattacharja Chandan.blogspot.com Prakalpana World]<br />
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[[Category:Zine]] [[Category:Zines from India]] [[Category:1970's publications]] [[Category:1980's publications]] [[Category:1990's publications]] [[Category:2000's publications]] [[Category:Poetry Zines]]</div>Vubrajokhttps://zinewiki.com/zinewiki/index.php?title=PrakalpanA_LitfesT&diff=29487PrakalpanA LitfesT2009-08-16T20:10:43Z<p>Vubrajok: </p>
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<div> '''!BE HERE!'''<br />
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'''PrakalpanA LitfesT 09''' will commence as usual on Prakalpana Day, 6th September this year from 5pm to 9pm at Jibanananda Sabhaghar, Bangla Akademy, 1/1 Acharya Jagadish Chandra Basu Road, Kolkata 700020. The festival will include:<br />
* Seminar to be presided over by the ace poet and critic Ananda GhoshHajra and the director of Kolkata Little Magazine Library & Research Centre Sandip Dutta will be the chief guest.<br />
* Release of Vattacharja Chandan's long-waited Prakalpana book:'''''Atiprithibi 1'''''.<br />
* Prakalpana Reading.<br />
* Performance of Sarbangin Poetry with music.<br />
* Poetry Reading in any language any genre by the poets who happen to be present there at the right time right spot in this part of the world for which if you need, feel free to contact: prakalpana@gmail.com<br />
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'''!! BE THERE !!'''</div>Vubrajokhttps://zinewiki.com/zinewiki/index.php?title=PrakalpanA_LitfesT&diff=29486PrakalpanA LitfesT2009-08-16T20:08:54Z<p>Vubrajok: </p>
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<div> '''!BE HERE!'''<br />
<br />
'''PrakalpanA LitfesT 09''' will commence as usual on Prakalpana Day, 6th September this year from 5pm to 9pm at Jibanananda Sabhaghar, Bangla Akademy, 1/1 Acharya Jagadish Chandra Basu Road, Kolkata 700020. The festival will include:<br />
* Seminar to be presided over by the ace poet and critic Ananda GhoshHajra and the director of Kolkata Little Magazine Library & Research Centre Sandip Dutta will be the chief guest.<br />
* Release of Vattacharja Chandan's long-waited Prakalpana book:'''''Atiprithibi 1'''''.<br />
* Prakalpana Reading.<br />
* Performance of Sarbangin Poetry with music.<br />
* Poetry Reading in any language any genre by the poets who happen to be present there at the right time right spot in this part of the world for which if you need, feel free to contact: prakalpana@gmail.com<br />
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'''!! BE THERE !!'''</div>Vubrajokhttps://zinewiki.com/zinewiki/index.php?title=PrakalpanA_LitfesT&diff=29485PrakalpanA LitfesT2009-08-16T20:04:51Z<p>Vubrajok: </p>
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<div>'''PrakalpanA LitfesT 09''' will commence as usual on Prakalpana Day, 6th September this year from 5pm to 9pm at Jibanananda Sabhaghar, Bangla Akademy, 1/1 Acharya Jagadish Chandra Basu Road, Kolkata 700020. The festival will include:<br />
* Seminar to be presided over by the ace poet and critic Ananda GhoshHajra and the director of Kolkata Little Magazine Library & Research Centre Sandip will be the chief guest.<br />
* Release of Vattacharja Chandan's long-waited Prakalpana book:'''''Atiprithibi 1'''''.<br />
* Prakalpana Reading.<br />
* Performance of Sarbangin Poetry with music.<br />
* Poetry Reading in any language any genre by the poets who happen to be present there at the right time right spot in this part of the world for which if you need, feel free to contact: prakalpana@gmail.com</div>Vubrajokhttps://zinewiki.com/zinewiki/index.php?title=PrakalpanA_LitfesT&diff=29484PrakalpanA LitfesT2009-08-16T19:56:54Z<p>Vubrajok: </p>
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<div>'''PrakalpanA LitfesT 09''' will commence as usual on Prakalpana Day, 6th September this year from 5pm to 9pm at Jibanananda Sabhaghar, Bangla Akademy, 1/1 Acharya Jagadish Chandra Basu Road, Kolkata 700020. The festival will include:<br />
* Seminar to be presided over by the ace poet and critic Ananda GhoshHajra and the director of Kolkata Little Magazine Library & Research Centre Sandip will be the chief guest.<br />
* Release of Vattacharja Chandan's long-waited Prakalpana book:'''''Atiprithibi 1'''''.</div>Vubrajokhttps://zinewiki.com/zinewiki/index.php?title=PrakalpanA_LitfesT&diff=29483PrakalpanA LitfesT2009-08-16T19:52:33Z<p>Vubrajok: </p>
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<div>'''PrakalpanA LitfesT 09''' will commence as usual on Prakalpana Day, 6th September this year from 5pm to 9pm at Jibanananda Sabhaghar, Bangla Akademy, 1/1 Acharya Jagadish Chandra Basu Road, Kolkata 700020. The festival will include:<br />
* Seminar to be presided over by the ace poet and critic Ananda GhoshHajra and the director of Kolkata Little Magazine Library & Research Centre Sandip will be the chief guest.</div>Vubrajokhttps://zinewiki.com/zinewiki/index.php?title=PrakalpanA_LitfesT&diff=29482PrakalpanA LitfesT2009-08-16T19:07:07Z<p>Vubrajok: New page: '''PrakalpanA LitfesT 09''' will commence as usual on Prakalpana Day, 6th September this year from 5pm to 9pm at Jibanananda Sabhaghar, Bangla Akademy, 1/1 Acharya Jagadish Chandra Basu Ro...</p>
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<div>'''PrakalpanA LitfesT 09''' will commence as usual on Prakalpana Day, 6th September this year from 5pm to 9pm at Jibanananda Sabhaghar, Bangla Akademy, 1/1 Acharya Jagadish Chandra Basu Road, Kolkata 700020.</div>Vubrajokhttps://zinewiki.com/zinewiki/index.php?title=PrakalpanA_LiteraturE&diff=29474PrakalpanA LiteraturE2009-08-16T16:46:25Z<p>Vubrajok: </p>
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<div>'''PrakalpanA LiteraturE''' is a bilingual [[zine]] by [[Vattacharja Chandan.]]<br />
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[[Image:Prasymbweb.jpg|right]]<br />
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"Prakalpana" is a new form of literature and art composed of: P for Prose, Poetry, graPhics + R for for stoRy + A for Art, essAy + K for Kinema + L for noveL, cuLture, pLay + N for soNg, as derived by Vattacharja Chandan. The word 'prakalpana' means proper imagination. <br />
<br />
This new form of literature and art named 'Prakalpana' emerged out of the last half of the last century, (apart from the so long known forms of literature like the various kinds of poetry, story, essay, play, novel &c), and shapes co-mixed prose + poetry + drama + essay + visuals like signs, symbols, photos and various artforms & platforms that the respective independent writer finds suitable to utilize, to beautify and expand the different parts in a piece of writing, ripping off all the cliche taboos, inhibitions and restrictions.<br />
<br />
In these two on-going bilingual ( Bangla - English ) zines, [[KOBISENA|kOBISENa]] and PrakalpanA SahityA / PrakalpanA LiteraturE, apart from Prakalpana, is published a new kind of poetry, namely "Sarbangin Poetry", which uses both text + visuals like signs, symbols, photos, and so on, which the poet might need to aptly express her/his idea. These zines do not consider simply any design pattern structure or picture as poetry until and unless it is supported by accessible abstract text and texture in a new rhythm which is not free verse as used in prevailing mainstream poetry, but is a blending of rhyming + unrhyming as of the natural flow of life in concord and discord.<br />
In addition to Prakalpana and Sarbangin Poetry, submissions of new kind of experimental & avant garde poetry and [[Mail Art|Mail artwork]] from around the world are also invited for publication in these zines. <br />
<br />
Alternative creative literary and artistic books and zines may also be sent here for review; and PrakalpanA LiteraturE has itself been reviewed by [[Factsheet Five]], Scavengers Newsletter, NHI Review Online, [[Fanzine Fanatique]] etc.<br />
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===PRAKALPANA LITFEST===<br />
<br />
The past years of the PrakalpanA MovemenT has been literally and literary eventful by its launching of countless literary indoor and outdoor meets, seminars & readings. This time also on the Prakalpana day, the 6th September 2009, the '''PrakalpanA LitfesT''' will be held in Kolkata, India. <br />
<br />
To know more about the participation in the Event from anywhere, check out the [[PrakalpanA LitfesT]] page.<br />
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===HISTORY===<br />
<br />
Prakalpana Movement in literature dates back to 1969 when Vattacharja Chandan along with Dilip Gupta and Asish Deb started this movement in Kolkata, India with the launch of their initial magazine ''SwatotsaR.''<br />
Since then this movement, so far has sporadically published 20 issues of SwatotsaR, 44 issues of kOBISENa and 23 issues of PrakalpanA SahityA / PrakalpanA LiteraturE.<br />
<br />
Over the years a few of the long list of contributing writers and artists worldwide include: Dilip Gupta, Asish Deb, John Byrum, Don Webb, Ramratan Mukhopadhyay, Hugo Pontes, Nikhil Bhaumik, Geof Huth, Richard Kostelanetz, Charlene Mary-Cath Smith, Vattacharja Chandan, Sheila Murphy, John M Bennett, Boudhayan Mukhopadhyay, Susan Smith Nash, Satya Ranjan Biswas, Gerald England, Ananda Ghosh Hazra, Carla Bertola, t. winter-Damon, Syamoli Mukherjee Bhattacharjee, Jessica Manack, Saswata Shikdar, Madhab Hazra, Guy R. Beining, Laxmi Paul, Mick Cusimano, Alfred Walker, Jose Roberto Sechi, Subrata Sen, Gloria Persiani, Ray Succre, Avijit Ghose, Christian Burgaud, Amit Kashyap, David Stone....and many others.<br />
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==External Link== <br />
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[http://vattacharjachandan.blogspot.com Prakalpana World]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Zine]] [[Category:Zines from India]] [[Category:2000's publications]] [[Category:Literary Zines]] [[Category:Poetry Zines]]<br />
[[Category:Event]]</div>Vubrajokhttps://zinewiki.com/zinewiki/index.php?title=PrakalpanA_LiteraturE&diff=29473PrakalpanA LiteraturE2009-08-16T16:42:07Z<p>Vubrajok: </p>
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<div>'''PrakalpanA LiteraturE''' is a bilingual [[zine]] by [[Vattacharja Chandan.]]<br />
<br />
[[Image:Prasymbweb.jpg|right]]<br />
<br />
"Prakalpana" is a new form of literature and art composed of: P for Prose, Poetry, graPhics + R for for stoRy + A for Art, essAy + K for Kinema + L for noveL, cuLture, pLay + N for soNg, as derived by Vattacharja Chandan. The word 'prakalpana' means proper imagination. <br />
<br />
This new form of literature and art named 'Prakalpana' emerged out of the last half of the last century, (apart from the so long known forms of literature like the various kinds of poetry, story, essay, play, novel &c), and shapes co-mixed prose + poetry + drama + essay + visuals like signs, symbols, photos and various artforms & platforms that the respective independent writer finds suitable to utilize, to beautify and expand the different parts in a piece of writing, ripping off all the cliche taboos, inhibitions and restrictions.<br />
<br />
In these two on-going bilingual ( Bangla - English ) zines, [[KOBISENA|kOBISENa]] and PrakalpanA SahityA / PrakalpanA LiteraturE, apart from Prakalpana, is published a new kind of poetry, namely "Sarbangin Poetry", which uses both text + visuals like signs, symbols, photos, and so on, which the poet might need to aptly express her/his idea. These zines do not consider simply any design pattern structure or picture as poetry until and unless it is supported by accessible abstract text and texture in a new rhythm which is not free verse as used in prevailing mainstream poetry, but is a blending of rhyming + unrhyming as of the natural flow of life in concord and discord.<br />
In addition to Prakalpana and Sarbangin Poetry, submissions of new kind of experimental & avant garde poetry and [[Mail Art|Mail artwork]] from around the world are also invited for publication in these zines. <br />
<br />
Alternative creative literary and artistic books and zines may also be sent here for review; and PrakalpanA LiteraturE has itself been reviewed by [[Factsheet Five]], Scavengers Newsletter, NHI Review Online, [[Fanzine Fanatique]] etc.<br />
<br />
===PRAKALPANA LITFEST===<br />
<br />
The past years of the PrakalpanA MovemenT has been literally and literary eventful by its launching of countless literary indoor and outdoor meets, seminars & readings. This time also on the Prakalpana day, the 6th September 2009, the '''PrakalpanA LitfesT''' will be held in Kolkata, India. <br />
<br />
To know more about the participation in the Event from anywhere, check out the [[PrakalpanA LitfesT]] page.<br />
<br />
===HISTORY===<br />
<br />
Prakalpana Movement in literature dates back to 1969 when Vattacharja Chandan along with Dilip Gupta and Asish Deb started this movement in Kolkata, India with the launch of their initial magazine ''SwatotsaR.''<br />
Since then this movement, so far has sporadically published 20 issues of SwatotsaR, 44 issues of kOBISENa and 23 issues of PrakalpanA SahityA / PrakalpanA LiteraturE.<br />
<br />
Over the years a few of the long list of contributing writers and artists worldwide include: Dilip Gupta, Asish Deb, John Byrum, Don Webb, Ramratan Mukhopadhyay, Hugo Pontes, Nikhil Bhaumik, Geof Huth, Richard Kostelanetz, Charlene Mary-Cath Smith, Vattacharja Chandan, Sheila Murphy, John M Bennett, Boudhayan Mukhopadhyay, Susan Smith Nash, Satya Ranjan Biswas, Gerald England, Ananda Ghosh Hazra, Carla Bertola, t. winter-Damon, Syamoli Mukherjee Bhattacharjee, Jessica Manack, Saswata Shikdar, Madhab Hazra, Guy R. Beining, Laxmi Paul, Mick Cusimano, Alfred Walker, Jose Roberto Sechi, Subrata Sen, Gloria Persiani, Ray Succre, Avijit Ghose, Christian Burgaud, Amit Kashyap, David Stone....and many others.<br />
<br />
==External Link== <br />
<br />
[http://vattacharjachandan.blogspot.com Prakalpana World]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Zine]] [[Category:Zines from India]] [[Category:2000's publications]] [[Category:Literary Zines]] [[Category:Poetry Zines]]<br />
[[Category:Event]]</div>Vubrajokhttps://zinewiki.com/zinewiki/index.php?title=PrakalpanA_LiteraturE&diff=29472PrakalpanA LiteraturE2009-08-15T21:59:03Z<p>Vubrajok: </p>
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<div>'''PrakalpanA LiteraturE''' is a bilingual [[zine]] by [[Vattacharja Chandan.]]<br />
<br />
[[Image:Prasymbweb.jpg|right]]<br />
<br />
"Prakalpana" is a new form of literature and art composed of: P for Prose, Poetry, graPhics + R for for stoRy + A for Art, essAy + K for Kinema + L for noveL, cuLture, pLay + N for soNg, as derived by Vattacharja Chandan. The word 'prakalpana' means proper imagination. <br />
<br />
This new form of literature and art named 'Prakalpana' emerged out of the last half of the last century, (apart from the so long known forms of literature like the various kinds of poetry, story, essay, play, novel &c), and shapes co-mixed prose + poetry + drama + essay + visuals like signs, symbols, photos and various artforms & platforms that the respective independent writer finds suitable to utilize, to beautify and expand the different parts in a piece of writing, ripping off all the cliche taboos, inhibitions and restrictions.<br />
<br />
In these two on-going bilingual ( Bangla - English ) zines, [[KOBISENA|kOBISENa]] and PrakalpanA SahityA / PrakalpanA LiteraturE, apart from Prakalpana, is published a new kind of poetry, namely "Sarbangin Poetry", which uses both text + visuals like signs, symbols, photos, and so on, which the poet might need to aptly express her/his idea. These zines do not consider simply any design pattern structure or picture as poetry until and unless it is supported by accessible abstract text and texture in a new rhythm which is not free verse as used in prevailing mainstream poetry, but is a blending of rhyming + unrhyming as of the natural flow of life in concord and discord.<br />
In addition to Prakalpana and Sarbangin Poetry, submissions of new kind of experimental & avant garde poetry and [[Mail Art|Mail artwork]] from around the world are also invited for publication in these zines. <br />
<br />
Alternative creative literary and artistic books and zines may also be sent here for review; and PrakalpanA LiteraturE has itself been reviewed by [[Factsheet Five]], Scavengers Newsletter, NHI Review Online, [[Fanzine Fanatique]] etc.<br />
<br />
===PRAKALPANA LITFEST, 2009===<br />
<br />
The past years of the PrakalpanA MovemenT has been literally and literary eventful by its launching of countless literary indoor and outdoor meets, seminars & readings. This time also on the Prakalpana day, the 6th September 2009, the '''PrakalpanA LitfesT''' will be held in Kolkata, India. <br />
<br />
To know more about the participation in the Event from anywhere, check out the [[PrakalpanA LitfesT, 2009]] page.<br />
<br />
===HISTORY===<br />
<br />
Prakalpana Movement in literature dates back to 1969 when Vattacharja Chandan along with Dilip Gupta and Asish Deb started this movement in Kolkata, India with the launch of their initial magazine ''SwatotsaR.''<br />
Since then this movement, so far has sporadically published 20 issues of SwatotsaR, 44 issues of kOBISENa and 23 issues of PrakalpanA SahityA / PrakalpanA LiteraturE.<br />
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Over the years a few of the long list of contributing writers and artists worldwide include: Dilip Gupta, Asish Deb, John Byrum, Don Webb, Ramratan Mukhopadhyay, Hugo Pontes, Nikhil Bhaumik, Geof Huth, Richard Kostelanetz, Charlene Mary-Cath Smith, Vattacharja Chandan, Sheila Murphy, John M Bennett, Boudhayan Mukhopadhyay, Susan Smith Nash, Satya Ranjan Biswas, Gerald England, Ananda Ghosh Hazra, Carla Bertola, t. winter-Damon, Syamoli Mukherjee Bhattacharjee, Jessica Manack, Saswata Shikdar, Madhab Hazra, Guy R. Beining, Laxmi Paul, Mick Cusimano, Alfred Walker, Jose Roberto Sechi, Subrata Sen, Gloria Persiani, Ray Succre, Avijit Ghose, Christian Burgaud, Amit Kashyap, David Stone....and many others.<br />
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==External Link== <br />
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[http://vattacharjachandan.blogspot.com Prakalpana World]<br />
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