SAMAR: South Asian Magazine for Action and Reflection

SAMAR: South Asian Magazine for Action and Reflection

http://www.samarmagazine.org/

Publisher: SAMAR Collective

SAMAR (South Asian Magazine for Action and Reflection) is a magazine/website
with a South Asian focus based in the United States. We choose to use the
term "South Asian" because we feel it is important to bring attention to the
fact that South Asians are a group of people with a shared history and that
this history provides a common basis for understanding our place in the
contemporary world.

Whereas most other South Asian magazines are based on differences of region,
religion and nationality within South Asia, we have chosen to base ours on a
South Asian collectivity that is now spread out across the globe. At SAMAR,
we hope to reflect the full complexity of "South Asian" in the composition
of the editorial collective, contributors and readers.

SAMAR responds to a need for a publication that fosters serious debates
within the South Asian community and is meant for a general audience. It
focuses on analyses of social processes rather than on direct reporting of
news events. As suggested by the name of the magazine, SAMAR tends towards
social analyses that draw their energy from activist involvement.

We are living in an era of rightward political drift. In North America as in
South Asia, SAMAR's fundamental commitment is to advancing the forces for
social and economic justice. To that end, we at SAMAR work to nurture
critical and dissenting voices and invite you to join us in debating the
range and depth of radical alternatives to present social arrangements.

SAMAR Magazine accepts articles, editorials, fiction, poetry, artwork,
photography, and reviews (and are open to other mediums) on a range of
issues related to South Asia and the diaspora (and other communities that
may have links). Articles/reviews should be written as a social analysis and
critical engagement with the topic. We ask that you avoid academic language,
jargon or reportage. Our audience is definitely progressive-to-left and so
your content should be as well. The best way to know if your work would fit
is to look at our current and past issues.

SAMAR Collective
P.O. Box 277
Prince Street Station
New York, NY 10012

Email: samarcollective@yahoo.com

Content freely accessible online.

Current Issue: Issue 18: Fall 2004

Date: 9 May 2005