Dinaman

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2018}} {{Use Indian English|date=July 2018}} {{Infobox magazine | title = Dinaman | image_file = | image_size = | image_alt = | image_caption = | editor = | editor_title = | previous_editor = | staff_writer = | frequency = Weekly | circulation = | category = News magazine | company = | publisher = Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. | founded = 1965 | country = India | based = New Delhi | language = Hindi | website = | issn = 0012-3005 }} '''''Dinaman''''' was a Hindi language weekly magazine founded in 1965.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kr̥ṣṇamūrti|first=Nāḍiga|title=Indian journalism; origin, growth and development of Indian journalism from Asoka to Nehru.|publisher=University of Mysore|location=Mysore|year=1966|page=150|oclc=1086734}}</ref> It was published in New Delhi.<ref>{{cite book|title=Press in India, Part 1|publisher=Office of the Registrar of Newspapers.|location=New Delhi|page=66|oclc=5036921}}</ref> The newsweekly was started by Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan 'Ajneya', a pioneer of modern Hindi poetry and writing.<ref name="UPSC">{{cite book|last=Reddy|date=2005|title=General Studies History 4 Upsc |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yWfeU9eQd5YC&pg=SL3-PA143|publisher=Tata McGraw-Hill|isbn=978-0-07-060447-6|pages=C-143, C-144}}</ref> His Assistant Editors were Raghuvir Sahay, a prominent Hindi author and a then unknown Manohar Shyam Joshi, who went on to become the editor of Saptahik Hindustan and a pathbreaking writer himself. Subsequent editors of the magazine included the Hindi poet Raghuvir Sahay,<ref name="UPSC" /> K.L. Nandan, and Satish Jha. ''Dinaman'' was published by Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. (now The Times Group).<ref>{{cite book|last=Bowker|first=R. R.|title=Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory, 1988-99|publisher=Bowker|year=1988|edition=27|volume=1|page=1629|isbn=978-0-8352-2563-2}}</ref> Some of its staff members achieved national political stature. Shrikant Verma, a poet, was nominated to India's parliamentary Upper House in 1976, the Rajya Sabha and was a close adviser of the then Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi. Poet Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena and critic Vinod Bharadwaj, Prayag Shukl and Uday Pratap went on achieve India's high literary honours the Sahitya Academy Puruskar, equivalent of the US Pulitzer Prize.

The magazine was considered a trendsetter in Hindi journalism.<ref>{{cite journal|year=2004|title=S. H. Vatsyayan|journal=India International Centre Quarterly|publisher=India International Centre|volume=31|page=308|issn=0376-9771|oclc=2245565}}</ref> It also played a significant role in the development of the genre of Hindi theatre criticism.<ref>{{cite journal|year=1995|title=Sangeet natak|journal=Sangeet Natak|publisher=Sangeet Natak Akademi|issue=115–118|page=17|issn=0036-4339|oclc=1605157}}</ref>

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==External links== * [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3889190 WorldCat record]

Category:1965 establishments in Delhi Category:Agyeya Category:Defunct magazines published in India Category:Hindi-language magazines Category:Magazines established in 1965 Category:Magazines with year of disestablishment missing Category:Magazines published in Delhi Category:News magazines published in India Category:Publications of The Times Group Category:Weekly magazines published in India