{{More citations needed|date=November 2024}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2025}} {{Use Indian English|date=August 2025}} {{Infobox magazine | image_file = Sabujpatra logo (1914-1927).jpg | editor = Pramatha Chaudhuri<ref>{{cite news|last1=Pandey|first1=Jhimli Mukherjee|title='Cholti Bangla' finally gets a grammar guide|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Cholti-Bangla-finally-gets-a-grammar-guide/articleshow/15412126.cms|accessdate=3 August 2015|work=The Times of India}}</ref> | language = Bengali | website = | country = India | frequency = | founded = 1914 | lastdate = 1927 }} '''''Sabujpatra''''', also known as ''''Sabuj Patra'''' (English: ''Green Leaf'') was liberal and pro-Tagore Bengali magazine. It was named ''Sabujpatra'' as its cover page was illustrated by a green palmleaf drawn by Nandalal Bose (no other colors were ever used). It was edited by Pramatha Chaudhuri and first published on 25th Baishakh 1321 BS (April 1914).<ref name="banglapedia1">{{cite book|last=Indrajit |first=Chaudhuri|year=2012 |chapter=Sabujpatra|chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Sabujpatra |editor1-last=Islam|editor1-first=Sirajul|editor1-link=Sirajul Islam|editor2-last=Jamal |editor2-first=Ahmed A.|title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh|edition=Second|publisher=Asiatic Society of Bangladesh}}</ref> The magazine had no advertisements and no pictures.<ref name="banglapedia1"/> In the first phase it was being published up to 1329 BS (1922). Its second phase started in 1332 BS. The magazine folded in 1334 BS (1927).
Short-lived, ''Sabujpatra'' was a major force in remolding Bengali language and literary style for the post-First World War generation. Pramatha Choudhury preferred spoken Bengali to the written and a new style of writing, often called 'Birbali', after his pseudonym 'Birbal'.<ref name="banglapedia1"/> From then on colloquial Bengali dominated the Bengali literary scene.<ref name="banglapedia1"/>
Sabujpatra initially contained writings from Rabindranath Tagore, Satyendranath Dutta and the editor himself. Some of the intellectuals who gathered around Pramatha Chowdhury became literary luminaries later. Dhurjatiprasad Mukhopadhyay, Atul Chandra Gupta, Barada Charan Gupta, Suniti Kumar Chatterji, Kiran Shankar Roy wrote articles in ''Sabujpatra''; Kanti Chandra Ghosh, Amiya Chakraborty and Suresh Chakraborty contributed poems. In everything it published, Sabujpatra expressed the spirit of freethinking and advocated rationalism, democracy and individual freedom.<ref name="banglapedia1"/>
Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi Library, Kolkata has archived a complete set of ''Sabujpatra''.
==Rabindranath Tagore and ''Sabuj Patra''== {{Unreferenced section|date=March 2025}} Rabindranath Tagore was a regular contributor to ''Sabuj Patra''. Many of his early 20th century works including the ''Balaka'' poems, two of his novels, ''Ghare Baire'' and ''Chaturanga'', a play titled ''Phalguni'' and a considerable lot of short stories and essays were published in this journal.
In ''Sabuj Patra'', Tagore expressed his revolutionary view on society and political situations of contemporary times through his fiction and prose. ''Haimanti'' and ''Streer Patra'' caused a frown of contemporary Bengali society as well as his essays ''Bastab'' and ''Lokohito'' were severely attacked in conservative journals like ''Sahitya'' and ''Narayan''.
== Other contributors ==
* Kiran Shankar Roy, * Satyendra Nath Bose * Barada Charan Gupta * Suniti Kumar Chatterji<ref>Page 35, Makers of Indian Literature: Pramatha Chaudhuri, Arun Kumar Mukhopadhyay</ref>
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