{{Short description|Indian online magazine}} {{distinguish|Tin Pahar}} {{Notability|date=November 2024}} {{No significant coverage|date=November 2024}} {{Infobox magazine | title = Tinpahar | image_file = File:Tinpahar.jpg| | image_size = 200px | image_alt = | image_caption = | editor = Siddharth Sivakumar | editor_title = Editor-in-chief | editor2 = Siddharth Sivakumar, Arkajit Mandal | editor_title2 = Founders | editor3 = | editor_title3 = | editor5 = | editor_title5 = | previous_editor = | staff_writer = | frequency = Bimonthly | category = Indian culture | circulation = | company = | publisher = | firstdate = 14 September 2012 | lastdate = | country = India | based = Santiniketan | language = English, Bengali | website = {{URL|tinpahar.com}} | issn = 2349-6207 | lccn = }} '''''Tinpahar''''' is a bimonthly, bilingual (English and Bengali) Indian online magazine that promotes art, literature, and culture with the motto, "Free and Fertile".
==History== The magazine was established by Arkajit Mandal and Siddharth Sivakumar. The idea of ''Tinpahar'' was developed from ''Resonance'', a magazine edited by Siddharth and published by Patha Bhavana and Visva Bharati. It was launched on 14 September 2012.
== Activity == ''Tinpahar'' has special columns dedicated to comparative literature, arts, and gender studies in India.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://tinpahar.com/webform/267 |title=Make My Website Initiative! |publisher=Tinpahar |accessdate=2014-03-18 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140513195302/http://tinpahar.com/webform/267 |archivedate=2014-05-13 }}</ref>
''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.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://thecitizen.in/city/literature-visual-arts-and-music/ | title=Literature, Visual Arts and Music | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140603195253/http://www.thecitizen.in/literature-visual-arts-and-music/ | archive-date=2014-06-03}}</ref> Recently ''Tinpahar'' has initiated a programme to support enthusiastic groups engaged in serious cultural endeavours by making them websites for free. The upcoming Tamil website of ''Tinpahar'' will act as a platform for students to express themselves on matters of humanities, arts, music, and literature.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dinakaran.com/District_Detail.asp?Nid=289939&cat=504 |title=தமிழில் முதன்முறையாக மாணவர்களால் நடத்தப்படும் இணைய இதழ் - District Dinakarn |publisher=Dinakaran.com |date=2014-03-05 |accessdate=2014-03-18}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/madurai/American-College-students-to-launch-Tamil-edition-of-e-zine-from-Shantiniketan/articleshow/31438182.cms |title=American College students to launch Tamil edition of e-zine from Shantiniketan |work=The Times of India |publisher=Timesofindia.indiatimes.com |date=2014-03-05 |accessdate=2014-03-18}}</ref>
In 2014, ''Tinpahar'' was the publishing partner of the Poetry Slam hosted by the Literary Society, Presidency University.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1140903/jsp/t2/story_18792700.jsp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140927213852/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1140903/jsp/t2/story_18792700.jsp|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 27, 2014|title=The digital debate at Engage 2014. plus, an education fair and poetry by freshers|work=The Telegraph}}</ref> In 2015 ''Tinpahar'' became one of the Online Media Partners of the Festember festival.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://festember.com/15/home/sponsors/ | title=Festember'23 }}</ref>
== See also == *Little magazine movement *List of literary magazines
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== External links == * {{Official website|http://tinpahar.com/}} * [http://thecitizen.in/city/literature-visual-arts-and-music/ The Citizen speaks with Siddharth Sivakumar]{{Dead link|date=June 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} *[https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/t1.0-9/1958307_611835852224361_1933597966_n.png Online Magazine ''Tinpahar'' to be published in Tamil- ''The New Indian''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140329214611/https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/t1.0-9/1958307_611835852224361_1933597966_n.png |date=2014-03-29 }} *[https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/t1.0-9/1958307_611835852224361_1933597966_n.png ''Express''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140329214611/https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/t1.0-9/1958307_611835852224361_1933597966_n.png |date=2014-03-29 }}
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