Magazines

Manushi, founded in 1978, is a " serious journal about women and society, which aims to bridge the gap between academic/scholarly writing and popular literature". It is published from New Delhi, India. Selected articles can be found on their home page. Manushi can be contacted at madhu@manushi.unv.ernet.in. Subscription rates are Rs 90, US $25, Canadian $30, Yen 2500, Aus $30, NZ $30, DM 40, L 15 UK and Ireland, and US $25 for other European countries. Rs 220 for Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Foreign suscribers should send a personal/bankers cheque to Manushi, C/202 Lajpat Nagar1, New Delhi 110024. Make cheques out to Manushi Trust.
Abasar -- an information website in Bengali. Includes information on law, health, arts, science, environment and women's issues.
All Pakistan Women's Association Newsletter -- from Karachi, Pakistan.
Alam-E-Niswan -- Pakistan Journal of Women's Studies. Past issues have covered issues such as domestic violence in Bangladesh, Alienation among working women, women's rights in tribal areas of Pakistan, rural Bangladesh women's role in family decison making, and employment patterns of Malaysian women.
Brown Sugar.
The COSAW Bulletin publishes original essays, reviews, interviews and creative writing on various aspects of women's struggles and achievements in South Asia, and the concerns of first and second generation immigrants settled in North America and elsewhere.
Chowk, a non-ideological, online magazine and forum for issues that are important to the people of india, Pakistan and other South Asian countries.
Crimson Feet publishes newer voices from India and elsewhere.
Darpan is an online magazine devoted to literary reflections on India.
DesiJournal -- chronicles of the Indian diaspora.
Diya is a new literary journal for the voice of South Asian Women. Diya, c/o S. Singh/ M.Reale, P.O. Box 175, Glenside, PA. 19038
EGO is a New York based culture, fashion and design magazine for the South Asian diaspora.
Himal South Asia is a bi-monthly magazine from Nepal which deals with issues and trends of South Asia from a non-national regionwide perspective. It tells Pakistanis about India, Indians about Bangladesh, Bangladeshis about Sri Lanka, and the rest of the world about South Asia.
Hum is a magazine created by South Asian American twentysomethings as an alternative to South Asian publications that gloss over topics for "the youth". hum focuses on South Asian American stories, doubts, inspirations, difficulties and successes.
Hinduism Today 1-900-890-1008 Hawaii
India Star is an electronic literary magazine which invites articles, short fiction, book reviews, software reviews, and letters to the editor.
Journal of South Asian Literature. Asian Studies Center, 109 International Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1035. Tel: 517/353-1680; Fax: 517/336-2659
Editors: Carlo Coppola, Oakland University, & Surjit Dulai, Michigan State University.
The electronic Journal of South Asian Women Studies is open to all bona fide scholars in South Asian Women Studies. It is meant to disseminate works which address theoretical and practical issues that are of interest to both scholars of South Asia and to women in and from South Asia. To subscribe, send email to india@shore.net with the Subject: subscribe your_name.
India Today (212) 481-0040 NY
India Worldwide (212) 481-3433 NY
India Monitor (212) 889-6878 NY
India Post (510) 249-1544 SF Bay Area
India Tribune (404) 325-9200
Indzine SF
India West (510) 652-3552 Bay Area
India Abroad
Little India is focused on the Indian American immigrant experience in North America.
India Currents (408) 274-6966 San Jose
Literate World focuses on creative content from the Southeast Asian/Indian diaspora.
Monsoon, an online magazine of South Asian literature and culture.
Masala (212) 627-4465 NY
News India-Times (212) 481-3110 NY
Nirmanee, a Sri Lankan newspaper for women, produced in Sinhala.
Nirvana Woman is a national magazine in the US and Canada for South Asian women.
Literary Voices of India is a free online magazine dedicated to translations of contemporary Indian fiction.
City Masala is a free online publication based in Florida.
LaRC: Lanka Ribald Classics is an electronic magazine aimed at archiving unwritten humor from Sri Lanka. Rated R. To become a member of the mailing list, send e-mail to wpd@eng.umd.edu. Send contributions to the same address.
Parabaas is a Bengali webzine which includes book reviews for those who can read Bengali.
Sangat is a monthly journal of culture, politics, poetry and fiction about and for the South Asian diaspora.
Serendipity: An electronic magazine published on a bi-monthly basis by the Sri Lanka Academic Interest Group. Its primary audience is the expatriate Sri Lankans. It is aimed at increasing the awareness of Sri Lanka and the artistic and scholarly activities of the Sri Lankan community spread all over the world. Electronic copies of Serendipity are available free of charge in ASCII (plain text) or TeX formats. To obtain past issues, please send an e-mail to dharma@src.umd.edu with "help" in the subject line. An auto-mailer will reply with a directory listing.
Sulekha, literary contributions by or about the subcontinent.
Sangam is the South Asian Students magazine of Club Zamana, Columbia University.
Sruti is India's premier classical music and dance magazine. For subscriptions, write to Sruti, 14 First Street, Kasturi Ranga Road, Madras 600 018, India. INRs 795/yr airmail (USD 23), 495/yr seamail ($14.50) (@ INR 34 = USD 1)
Taptilok is a Hindi literary magazine published twice a month and distributed worldwide. It's emphasis is on Indian Literature, Culture and Philosophy.
Thulika is a magazine for translated Telegu short stories and poetry in English, in parallel to e-Telegu Patrika which publishes in Telegu.
Khush Khayal, P.O. Box 6172, Station A, Toronto, Ontario M5W1P6, Canada. Quarterly. $5/year.
Shamakami SF P.O. Box 460456, San Francisco, CA 94146-0456, USA. Newsletter. $10/year.
South Asia Today Boston 38 Westland Ave, Suite 23, Boston, Ma 02115
Onward Magazine Ohio P.O.Box 59160, Dayton, OH 45459
Femina, India
Voices of Women -- from Colombo, Sri Lanka.

You may be able to get these books and magazines through one of the bookstores (in South Asia) or online sources.

Related links

SASIALIT is a mailing list for the discussion of contemporary literature of South Asia (Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka), including works by authors of South Asian origin throughout the world.
KitabKhana -- Hurree Babu's informed and entertaining view of books, reviews and literary news.
Sita's Sisters; an archive of Indian English writing by Joel Kuortti.
Australia's South Asia Resources Database.
The Nepali Literature Home Page
Asian American Writer's Workshop.
Asian-American Writers Workshop, New York.
UC Berkeley library's South Asian resources web site. In particular, see the diaspora section and their South Asian women's studies bibliography
How to find South Asian books abroad, from the SASIALIT page.
Radhika Gajjala maintains a page of writings by South Asian women
Manish Vij's page of South Asian American Literature, with book reviews, links to magazines, and interviews.
The book review page from Indolink has reviews of recent books by authors of Indian origin, such as Chitra Divakuruni and Salman Rushdie. This page hierarchy also has a section of poetry.
Books by and about Women of India, from Findians Paradise Book Store.
Western women writers -- a listing of authors and some online books.
Tamil Novel resource.

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