''Tinpahar'' is a bimonthly, bilingual (English and Bengali) Indian

online magazine An online magazine is a magazine published on the Internet, through bulletin board systems and other forms of public computer networks. One of the first magazines to convert from a print magazine format to being online only was the computer mag ...

that promotes art, literature, and culture with the motto, "Free and Fertile".

History

The magazine was established by Arkajit Mandal and

Siddharth Sivakumar Siddharth Sivakumar is an independent cultural journalist and writer. He is the founding editor and present editor-in-chief of the bilingual online cultural magazine Tinpahar. Family Siddharh Sivakumar is the son of art historian R. Siva Kumar ...

. The idea of ''Tinpahar'' was developed from ''Resonance'', a magazine edited by Siddharth and published by

Patha Bhavana Patha Bhavana is an institution of primary and secondary education in Santiniketan, West Bengal, India. Founded by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore in 1901, starting with only five students, the school is characterized by its philosophy of lea ...

and

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. It was launched on 14 September 2012.

Activity

''Tinpahar'' has special columns dedicated to

comparative literature Comparative literature is an academic field dealing with the study of literature and cultural expression across linguistic, national, geographic, and disciplinary boundaries. Comparative literature "performs a role similar to that of the study ...

, arts, and

gender studies Gender studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to analysing gender identity and gendered representation. Gender studies originated in the field of women's studies, concerning women, feminism, gender, and politics. The field ...

in India. ''Tinpahar'' aspires to erase the boundaries between discrete academic disciplines of literature, linguistics, philosophy, sociology, history, anthropology, art history and so on in order to create a "free and fertile" space for constructive discourses on/in humanity. Recently ''Tinpahar'' has initiated a programme to support enthusiastic groups engaged in serious cultural endeavours by making them websites for free. The upcoming

Tamil Tamil may refer to: * Tamils, an ethnic group native to India and some other parts of Asia ** Sri Lankan Tamils, Tamil people native to Sri Lanka also called ilankai tamils **Tamil Malaysians, Tamil people native to Malaysia * Tamil language, nati ...

website of ''Tinpahar'' will act as a platform for students to express themselves on matters of humanities, arts, music, and literature. In 2014, ''Tinpahar'' was the publishing partner of the Poetry Slam hosted by the Literary Society, Presidency University. In 2015 ''Tinpahar'' became one of the Online Media Partners of the

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festival.https://festember.com/15/home/sponsors/

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The Citizen speaks with Siddharth SivakumarOnline Magazine ''Tinpahar'' to be published in Tamil- ''The New Indian''

''Express''
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