Dharmyug
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Dharmyug was a Hindi pictorial weekly{{Cite web |url=http://hindimedia.in/3/news/A-unique-event-in-memory-of-Dharmayug |title=धर्मयुग की याद में एक अनूठा आयोजन, 31.12.2014, चन्द्रकांत जोशी |access-date=12 May 2015 |archive-date=5 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161005022726/http://hindimedia.in/3/news/A-unique-event-in-memory-of-Dharmayug |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |url=http://hindimedia.in/3/news/A-unique-event-in-memory-of-Dharmayug |title=धर्मयुग की याद ,कनुप्रिया का पाठ, Janadesh |access-date=12 May 2015 |archive-date=5 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161005022726/http://hindimedia.in/3/news/A-unique-event-in-memory-of-Dharmayug |url-status=dead }} published by The Times of India Group from year 1949 till 1993.
File:Dharmyug25oct59cover.jpg by A.A. Almelkar on the occasion of Diwali]]
History
The magazine was originally published by a Dalmia press in Bombay from 1949, just after independence of India, however it incorporated an earlier pictorial magazine Nav Yug that began in 1932.Dharmyug, 20 July 1952, cover states that it incorporates Nav Yug[https://books.google.com/books?id=bf_hAAAAMAAJ&dq=nav+yug++1932&pg=PA12 The Michigan Alumnus, Volume 55], Jogendra N. Sahni, University of Michigan. Alumni Association, UM Libraries, 1948 p. 12 Later on when the Dalmia group divested its stake from Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. in 1948, Dharmayug remained with the Times of India group.{{cite book|title=Report of the Press Commission: Appendices|year=1954|publisher=India. Press Commission, Jagadish Nataranjan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1zxPGiKzrOgC&q=dharmyug+closed}}
One of its chief editors was Pandit Satyakam Vidyalankar,[https://books.google.com/books?id=HQbIYRU25IcC&dq=%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AE+%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0&pg=PA190 Guzarā kahām̐-kahām̐ se: ātmakathātmaka saṃsmaraṇa, Kanhaiyālāla Nandana, Rajpal & Sons, 2007, pp. 189-191] The magazine became popular and widely read when, in 1960, noted writer-playwright Dharmveer Bharti noted for his play, Andha Yug (1953), was appointed as its Chief Editor.{{cite news|title=A trio of aces|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/A-trio-of-aces/articleshow/5879058.cms |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202101116/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-05-01/india/28306316_1_ram-leela-lord-ram-common-man |url-status=live |archive-date=2 February 2014 |work=The Times of India|date=1 May 2010}} The noted Hindi poet and author served as the chief editor for the magazine from 1960 to 1987.The Illustrated weekly of India: Volume 108, Issues 39-50, 1987.
Dharmveer Bharti was a dedicated and widely admired editor, although was sometimes considered to have been authoritative by fellow journalists.{{Cite web |url=http://gadyakosh.org/gk/%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%BC%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AC_%E0%A4%9B%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%9F%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AC_%28%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%97-7%29_/_%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0_%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE |title=ग़ालिब छुटी शराब, रवीन्द्र कालिया, Vani Prakasahn, 2000, 'धर्मयुग' का माहौल अत्यन्त सात्विक था। संपादकीय विभाग ऊपर से नीचे तक |access-date=13 May 2015 |archive-date=21 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210921034437/http://gadyakosh.org/gk/%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%BC%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AC_%E0%A4%9B%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%9F%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AC_(%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%97-7)_/_%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0_%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE |url-status=dead }}
After Bharti's retirement, Ganesh Mantri, a Hindi journalist, was appointed Editor, Vishwanath Sachdev took over from Ganesh Mantri, before the Times of India decided to close down the magazine in 1997.Whose news?:the media and women's issues by Saga Publications, 1994.{{cite book|title=The Indian media business By Vanita Kohli|year=2006|page=23|isbn=9780761934691|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hllyb6ymMy0C&q=dharmayug+&pg=PA23|last1=Kohli|first1=Vanita|last2=Kohli-Khandekar|first2=Vanita}}[https://www.google.com/search?q=dharmayug&espv=2&biw=1139&bih=747&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=-GlSVZibAo3coATbqoGIBA&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAw#tbm=isch&q=dharmayug+1993&imgrc=n8_55NMXCF-8YM%253A%3BapuMMHHAqC4-RM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fi.ebayimg.com%252F00%252Fs%252FMTYwMFgxMjcw%252Fz%252Fhb0AAOSwEeFVB~dT%252F%2524_35.JPG%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fm.ebay.in%252Fmobinweb%252Fitm%252F281670908330%253F_mwBanner%253D1%3B238%3B300 India 1to15 March 1993 Dharmayug Magazine well illustrated Hindi Script #oi2612]
Contents and significance
The magazine covered all disciplines, including literature, art, fashion, culture, fiction, science and comics.{{cite book|title=The Encyclopaedia Of Indian Literature (Volume Five (Sasay To Zorgot), Volume 5 By Mohan Lal|year=2006|isbn=9788126012213|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KnPoYxrRfc0C&q=dharmayug+&pg=PA4029|last1=Lal|first1=Mohan|publisher=Sahitya Akademi }}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yYgZAAAAMAAJ&q=dharmyug+|title=Bibliographic methods and reading behaviour by Shrinath Sahai|publisher=Oriental Publishers & Distributors|year=1976}} (although the name may imply Dharm = faith/duty, yug = age) Serialised stories of many Hindi popular writer and poets were published in the magazine.{{Cite web|url=http://www.kalpana.it/eng/writer/indian_writers/shivani.htm|title=Shivani Gaura Pant - Indian Writers|access-date=28 February 2012|archive-date=4 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211204061624/http://www.kalpana.it/eng/writer/indian_writers/shivani.htm|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web |url=http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/2005-August/006196.html |title=[Reader-list] Hindi little magazines |access-date=28 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100808203950/http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/2005-August/006196.html |archive-date=8 August 2010 |url-status=dead }} Dhabbuji, a cartoon character created by Abid Surti, was also a regular feature.,[http://comic-guy.blogspot.in/2010/04/dharamyug.html Dhabboji @ Dharamyug] besides works of cartoonist, Kaak were regularly featured.
Dharmyug was considered to be the most respected publication of its time. Many distinguished authors got their break into the field when they published in Dharmyug.[http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/features/blink/read/the-rise-of-online-publishing-and-social-media-benefits-the-hindi-authors-and-readers/article6913202.ece Is Hindi literature back in fashion?, KALYANI PRASHER, February 20, 2015 In 1987, the year after she turned 40, Pamela Manasi got her big break when Dharamyug published her story ‘Jagtu’.] Dharmyug also provided a beginning to painters like J.P. Singhal, who published his first painting in Dharmayug in 1954.[http://www.abhivyakti-hindi.org/kaladirgha/aalekh/jps/jpsinghall.htm कला मेरे लिये कुरुक्षेत्र ही थी, वरिष्ठ कलाकार जे.पी. सिंघल से प्रभुजोशी की बातचीत, Abhivyakti, १९ जुलाई २०१०]
It was a sad end to the saga of a Hindi magazine that once sold more than four lakh copies a week and gave a platform to many new Hindi writers and poets, like Mrinal Pande and Rajesh Joshi. The magazine was the first to serialize that tremendous milestone of Hindi and Indian theater Aadhe Adhure by Mohan Rakesh, as well as the first to publish stories of Shivani.
See also
- Life magazine 1883 to 1972
- The Illustrated Weekly of India 1880-1993 also published by Times of India