Kaurab

{{Short description|Bengali-language literary magazine}}

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Kaurab is a Bengali language literary magazine.{{cite news |title =How Nilanjan Mukherjee straddles the worlds of mesh engineering and avant-garde poetry | url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/my-kolkata/people/how-us-based-kolkata-boy-nilanjan-mukherjee-straddles-the-worlds-of-mesh-engineering-and-avant-garde-poetry/cid/1919201 | work=Telegraph |accessdate=30 May 2024}} & others.

The Kaurab Magazine (Kaurab Patrikaa) has been in print since 1970. In 1982 it won the D. K. Gupta award as the most distinguished Bengali literary magazine.{{cite news |title=Power of words |url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070723/asp/jharkhand/story_8094405.asp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110526043620/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070723/asp/jharkhand/story_8094405.asp |url-status=dead |archive-date=26 May 2011 |work=The Telegraph |date=23 July 2007 |accessdate=18 March 2009|location=Calcutta, India}} Kaurab's online version, Kaurab Online, is an electronic webzine of poetry and poetics, and houses an international translation and poetry book review archive. The webzine began in 1998, initially as a member site, moving on to becoming an independent dot com site in 2003.{{cite news |title=Romance with literature lives |url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070924/asp/jharkhand/story_8353453.asp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110526043644/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070924/asp/jharkhand/story_8353453.asp |url-status=dead |archive-date=26 May 2011 |work=The Telegraph |date=24 September 2007 |accessdate=18 March 2009|location=Calcutta, India |first=M. |last=Ganguly}} The publication of Kaurab's 100th print issue was celebrated in the Indian Museum on 5 December 2004 with a poetry festival.{{cite news | title = Kaurab 100 Festival | url=http://www.kaurab.com/front-page-files/kaurab100.html | work=Kaurab |accessdate=17 March 2012}} Since then the magazine has been edited by its online editor Aryanil Mukhopadhyay (Mukherjee) supported by Kaurab's second generation writers Sabyasachi Sanyal, Sudeshna Majumdar and Subhro Bandopadhyay.{{cite news |title=Bengali magazine takes virtual route to reconnect

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In 2007, the new editorial team and its group of poets/writers around the world took the magazine to an unprecedented height by launching an International Poetry Reading/Discussion Series conducted over three continents in three languages - Bengali, English and Spanish. Poets from India, England, Spain, Chile and the US have participated in these events.

The print magazine is presently irregular, while the webzine version is bii-annual.