FROM THE EDITORS
Dear readers, the second issue of our journal is, like the previous one, very much the same as regards genres and the distribution of content. There are a few new additions, though, to the contents this time.
In this issue, we have an important guest writer with us, Professor Noam Chomsky. Professor Chomsky is known all over the world as a major philosopher-writer of this century. His ideas and theories about transformational or generative grammar have revolutionised the study of language and its structures in the twentieth century. We are grateful to him for the permission to use the texts of three of his interviews/debates for publication in our web-journal and our print editions as well. One text of the three will be published in the present issue. The other two will be published in subsequent issues. Detailed information about Noam Chomsky's work can be found at www.chomsky.info , his official website. We also have with us this time Professor William Radice, a translator, a scholar and a poet in his own right. At present, Professor Radice is engaged part time at SOAS, University of London. Full details about him and his work can be reached at his website - www.williamradice.com . We are grateful to him for his contribution to our journal.
There are also some new young people writing this time for our journal, while some of the previous writers could not, unfortunately, make it to us with their work early enough. Among the new names on the "contents" page are people whom you can call freshmen. That is of course when we talk about the halls of literary enterprise; while some have already been there, and done much of that. Some of these new writers are from Kolkata, Silchar, Patna and some from other places, in India and abroad as well. We welcome them all aboard. And we earnestly invite you to send us your work as well. We shall, if these receive the approval of all the members of our editorial board, publish them in subsequent issues. Language is no bar, nor is the medium of expression. Only one important thing, you need to use a PDF creator software to encode the file you are sending us. Artwork is also very welcome as are photographs with proper captioning. We look forward to creating more such work, such pages, if the proper terminology be used, in the future. That of course, would be helped greatly by your comments and feedback. Do write to us about how you feel about our endeavour.
It is imperative that we mention here that the next issue (April - June 2008) shall be published at the end of March 2008. In the meantime, we shall be publishing a special issue on the occasion of World Poetry Day (21st March). This shall include only poetry in English and Bangla, as well as translations from both these languages and even others.
CONTENTS
(For the readers' ease, we would like to remind them that the files published here are PDF files. To view them, please click on the names of the authors marked in red and underlined to distinguish them from the headings and sub-headings. Thank you for bearing with us)
Poetry in Bangla
Ananda Jyoti Gupto Rangeet Mitra Mrigankoshekhar Ganguli
Smriti Paul Nath Ratnadeep Deb Arjun Choudhuri
Poetry in English
(Professor William Radice's poems have been published here with his due permission. Of the two pieces published, the first one is Radice's translation of a particular portion of Michael Madhusudan Dutt's magnum opus Meghnadbadh Kavya, or The Epic Narrating the Slaying of Meghnad. The copyright of the works rests entirely with Professor Radice. The journal affirms its nature as a non-commercial venture. No profits are made from this publication whatsoever)
Kunteel Barua Samartha Vashishtha Mrityunjay Sinha Ray
(One of Arjun's poems posted on Muse India's "Your space" column was chosen by Ambika Ananth, the editor, to be featured in the 'Editor's Choice' segment. Here is the link to that page)
Critical Writing in English
(Professor Chomsky's interview has been published here with due permission from him. This interview was previously published in a book by Plenum and Macmillan. The copyright of the interview rests with Professor Chomsky, however. The journal affirms its nature as a non-commercial venture. No profits are made from this publication whatsoever.)
(Professor Dipankar Purakayastha is presently Reader at the Department of English, School of Languages, Assam University. He has provided DHVANI SAHITYA CHAKRA with valuable advice in its times of need for which the members of DHVANI are very grateful to him.)
Features - Photography - Artwork
The link to Atanu Nath's series of photographs named ''Prayag Diaries'' has been temporarily removed due to some functional problems. It will be republished later.