Little magazines (Bengali: ছোটকাগজ) often called "small magazines", are literary magazines that publish experimental writings known and unknown writers. They are usually noncommercial in their outlook. The earliest significant examples are the transcendentalist publication The Ushaloke (1982), edited by Mohammad Shakerullah, [1] and The Theaterwala (1998), edited by Hasan shariar ,The urrokko ,The postcard [2] (2012) edited by Dr. Tanmay Sanyal. The Charvak edited by Risi dolay in Bangladesh which is a revolt against commercial and contemporary cultural Crisis in Bangladesh.
Little magazines played a significant role in for Bengali literacy and culture in the twentieth century. it had all started withKallol, a modernist movement magazine, established in 1923. The most popular among the group were Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899–1976), Mohitlal Majumder (1888–1952), Achintyakumar Sengupta (1903–1976), Satyendranath Dutta (1882–1922), and Premendra Mitra (1904–1988). Then Bengali poetry got into the brightest light of modernism in the 1930s, through the movement of a few other little magazines, such as Buddhadeb Bosu's Kabita and Sudhindranath Datta's Parichay. [3]
The movement that started in the mid-eighties here in Bangladesh, and especially around us in Dhaka, had a different perspective. Both politically and culturally, literary conditions then were not favourable at that time for young writers like Contemporary time [4], From the beginning in Dhaka , The little-magazine movement and anti-establishment concept both were consists in the belief that the life, artistic creation and writer's own personal dignity are important, in fact, are fundamental components which a writer should uphold on the basis of his/her commitment and uncompromising attitude.along with this concept that was the first to introduce the concept of the writer- the 'complete little-mag writer'- in Bangladesh.[5],