''Samakalin'' was a progressive

Assamese Assamese may refer to: * Assamese people, a socio-ethnolinguistic identity of north-eastern India * People of Assam, multi-ethnic, multi-linguistic and multi-religious people of Assam * Assamese language, one of the easternmost Indo-Aryan language ...

magazine published from

Guwahati Guwahati (, ; formerly rendered Gauhati, ) is the biggest city of the Indian state of Assam and also the largest metropolis in northeastern India. Dispur, the capital of Assam, is in the circuit city region located within Guwahati and is the ...

in the 1960s. It played a vital role in the socio-political lives of the people of

Assam Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur ...

and a platform for new writers to express their views. The magazine was published by

Pabitra Kumar Deka Pabitra Kumar Deka (29 January 19405 January 2010) was a progressive writer, columnist, publisher and editor of monthly magazine, film critic and script writer of the State of Assam in India. He is the winner of the Best Film Critic Award in 1988 ...

, Amal Barua and Gobinda Chandra Gogoi, all employees of

Assam Tribune ''The Assam Tribune'' is an Indian English daily newspaper published from Guwahati and Dibrugarh, Assam. With over 700,000 copies of current circulation and a readership of over 3 million, it is the highest circulated English daily in northeaste ...

group of newspapers. The Editors of the magazine were Amulya Barua and the famous Novelist Padma Borkotoki. Many eminent writers like Kirtinath Hazarika, Hiren Gohain,

Lakshmi Nandan Bora Lakshmi Nandan Bora (15 June 1932 – 3 June 2021) was an Indian novelist and short story writer in the Assamese language, known for over 60 books he has authored, including award winning novels, ''Patal Bhairavi'' and ''Kayakalpa''. A recipient ...

, Nirode Choudhury, Rabindra Sarkar, Kamal Gogoi and Saurabh Kumar Chaliha were regular contributors to the journal. A theater club was also opened under the Samakalin group known as ''Samakalin Natya Gosthi'' and plays like ''Surjyahara'' (Gauri Barman) and ''Putolar Namaskar'' (Atul Bordoloi) were staged in the late sixties.

References

Assamese-language mass media Assamese literature Monthly magazines published in India {{entertainment-mag-stub