Along with the language, gradually die the History, culture, tradition and identity of the speakers of that particular language
India’s multilingual journals SHADOWKRAFT and WATER call for tackling the problem of the loss of languages
From Correspondent
Tripura, India
Nine languages die every year, or one in every 40 days. If we do not tackle the problem of the loss of languages, more than half of them will become extinct over the next 100 years. The languages we use measure the depth of the human diversity mosaic across the world.
Along with the language gradually die the History, culture, tradition and identity of the speakers of that particular language especially if it’s their mother tongue.
Thus we should understand the value of coexistence and multilingualism and should give due honor to the time, energy, effort, vision and love invested in creating wonderful multilingual journals like SHADOWKRAFT and WATER.
SHADOWKRAFT edited by Subhrasankar Das is the 1st international multilingual literary journal published from Tripura, NorthEast India. It embarked on the journey in the year 2017.
Since then it has been raising the bar for itself in terms of quality and content. The journal is available worldwide in both conventional and digital formats.
Being a significant poet and translator of distinct repute, Subhrasankar Das shines in the craft of editing exceptionally well.
ShadowKraft breathes to be the eye-candy & heartthrob of passionate readers. It tries to capture the sparks in contemporary literature of different parts of the world. It doesn’t discriminate between emerging & established writers. Submission is accepted only on the basis of quality of the work. Rejection is not meant to hurt anyone in any way. ShadowKraft accepts variety in tone, style, technique but it never wishes to promote obscenity or anything against Peace, Humanity & Hope.
Another remarkable wing of SHADOWKRAFT is WATER, an international multilingual VIDEO JOURNAL, perhaps one of its kind. The first issue of WATER was published in the year 2020 and is available on the YouTube channel of WATER.
The artistic endeavors and the handpicked literary pieces of SHADOWKRAFT and WATER have been attracting the attention of the readers for years.
WATER’s innovative way of using Audio-visual medium to redesign literature in this age of digitalization has also been appreciated in a notable webinar organized by Sahitya akademi, Government of India.
The 3rd issue of WATER contains videos by Yuan Tian (Japan) , Sudeep Pakhrin (Nepal), Biswajit Deb and Arpita Acharya (Tripura) , Carlos Pena (Bolivia), Parthajit Chanda, Nabanita Sengupta and Joshua Bodhinetra (Kolkata), Smitha Sehgal (Delhi), Promila Arora (Punjab), Tsai Tzemin Ition (Taiwan) Mohan Dharmaratne (Srilanka) and Ashraf Aboul Yazid (Egypt).
The latest issue of SHADOWKRAFT (Issue XI, April 2024) features literary pieces/translations (In Bengali, English, Hindi, Japanese, Hungarian and French) from India, Bangladesh, Romania, France, USA, Egypt and Russia.
The contributors are: Mojaffor Hossain, Haroonuzaman, Ramesh Karthik , Kabir Deb, Amit Shankar Saha, Sudhendu Chattopadhyaya, Ban Mihaly, Béatrice Machet, Ace Boggess, Kalyanee Arandhara, Anna Halberstadt, Susmit Panda, Abu Ishahaq Hossain, Trishna Basak, Pankaj Banik, Lipika Saha, Litan Sabdakar and Subhadeep Deb and Dr. Sabina K.
SHADOWKRAFT:
https://shadowkraft.blogspot.com/
WATER:
https://youtube.com/@water7201?si=HrcXn-VNRw8GDqul
Email: shadowKraft.sd@gmail.com
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