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tabu ekalavya

The Gouri Cultural and Educational Association was established in 1995. This non-political organization published their first magazine Darpan, in the same year having Prof. Bimal Kumar Mukhopadhyay as chief editor, Prof. Dilip Bhattacharya as the president and Prof. Dipankar Mallik as the editor. Later the same was changed as a same titled magazine then existed outside. The new magazine "Tabu Ekalavya" was published in 23rd Sept. 1997 and soon a research magazine called "Sandhan" was published too.

"Tabu Ekalavya" is a socio-cultural magazine have Swami Shastrajnananda and Ramkumar Mukhopadhyay as chief advisor, Biplab Majee as the president, Prof. Sumita Chakraborty as the chief editor and prof. Dipankar Mallik as the editor. The supervisors of the magazine include Dr. Bratati Chakravarty, Dr. Rabindranath Bandyopadhyay, and Dr. Barid Baran Ghosh. The Editor's Board include - Dr. Satyabati Giri, Dr. Shrutinath Chakraborty, Dr. Sanat Kr. Naskar, Dr. Udaychand Das, Dr. Rezaul Karim, Dr. Munmun Gangopadhyay. Dr. Tapan Mandal, Dr. Biswajit Ray, Dr. Arjun Dev Sensharma, Dr. Amitabha Chakraborty, Dr. Aditya Kr. Lala, Dr. Arup Kr. Dhabal, Dr. Shubhankar Ray, Prof. Priyabrata Ghoshal, Prof. Arnab Sadhukhan, Prof. Prosenjit Biswas.

The magazine is published thrice a year. The writers who wrote for the magazine are : Shankha Ghosh, Sunil Gangopadhyay, Nirendranath Chakraborty, Alok Sarkar, Tarun Sanyal, Manindra Gupta, Utpal Kr. Basu, Alokranjan Dasgupta, Ujjwal Kumar Majumdar, Pabitra Sarkar, Subodh Sarkar, Krishna Basu, Jasodhora Roychowdhury, Sharat Kr. Mukhopadhyay, Procheta Gupta, Mandakranta Sen, Swami Shastraajnannanda, Amar Mitra, Alok Roy, Tarun Mukhopadhyay, Rushati Sen, Devarati Mitra, Mahua Mukhopadhyay, Shubhamay Mandal, Shrabani Pal, Sumita Chkaraborty, Suman Gun, Anuttam Bhattacharya, Basab Dasgupta, Jayieta Dutta, Kanan Bihari Goswami and others.

Besides regular and occasional editions, "Tabu Ekalavya" published a number of referable editions such as "Rabindra Avishkar", "Mallika Sengupta" special edition, "Mangalkabvya" special edition, "Mahashweta Devi" special edition, Short Story special edition I, II, III, IV vol. etc. These editions have been accepted and appreciated by large number of readers. Our main purpose is to bring less-discussed topics before the readers. Parallely our mission is to discover and introduce those writers who are far away of the city but have the potential to create literary mark. Such writers are still proving their capability to their full glory.