This is our annual issue in your hand. We are almost a week a late. The business of our team in various kinds of social works has increased to the height of the highest skyscraper of the city. The pressure has surmounted on us in a manner that it seemed we are sitting in an iron furnace. Anyhow, all is well when it ends well. We are out of true blues.
We have started our journey with a dream of publishing a literary magazine. The seed of the dream was sown on very first day of the year 2006. The offspring it bore was ticklishly blooming in the month of February. It was our inaugural issue.
The front cover of the issue was a clear depiction of our dream. We had started with a small step. Though it was small but firm and steady because it was predecided – may what comes.
Children, flowers, nature, social traumas, historical blunders, and political debates have been favourite topics of our contributors. Front cover of one of the issues had facsimile of a world famous painting of a world famous painter of the history called Pablo Picasso. The painting was – Guernica. Guernica was a village in Spain – the motherland of Picasso. Senseless warriors destroyed it. The crying women, yelling children, scorching animals in this painting remind us of our own brutality – we the civilised one tear the flesh of each other with our teeth.
We have paid homage to Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Bhagat Singh, Mother Teresa and famous music director Naushad Ali and many more by putting their pictures on front cover or submitting an article on them.
Most of the readers of Samar are young children. They have been taking keen interest in various social issues. They have shown their penmanship on the issues of Reservation, Western culture, Right to Information, Religious Orthodoxy, Infatuation, Patriarchy, Democracy and scientific temperaments. These debates are always invited by Samar. There are always ample of spaces in pages of our coveted magazine for these genuine and youthful ideas. We have tried our best to provide information to young readers. There have been contributions from enthusiastic writers about geographical, economic, and cultural information of a particular country. We have told them about poor conditions of children in this world. The malnourishment among children is a case of sheer apathy of humans. On the other hand, we have provided brief history of world famous poets in each issue. These articles created a sense of poetry among youths, the literary discussions have been encouraged through these articles.
The canvas is very broad and brushes are highly varied. We have brought colour palettes with our selves and plucking colours from the nature and society. What we have painted till now is beautiful and fragrant, what we will create in coming years will be belligerent and alarming. We can do anything, because we know nothing is impossible.
Final word we can say on this auspicious occasion is that Time is the only parameter of our success. It will be testimony for our toil and labour. It will be presenter of our performances.
….. And it will be torch bearer of our long march to the goal of greater good of greater number of huddled, poor, deprived masses. And it will be done with decency of silence, elegance of work and later on someday it will open its chest of achievements. As somebody has said –
Waqt aane de bata denge tujhe aye Aasman
Hum abhi se kya batayen kya hamare dil mein hai
(Let the chosen moment arrive we will tell you O Heavens!
We can’t tell you at present what is our goal where we are going)
Thank you
Yours truly,
Editor
We have started our journey with a dream of publishing a literary magazine. The seed of the dream was sown on very first day of the year 2006. The offspring it bore was ticklishly blooming in the month of February. It was our inaugural issue.
The front cover of the issue was a clear depiction of our dream. We had started with a small step. Though it was small but firm and steady because it was predecided – may what comes.
Children, flowers, nature, social traumas, historical blunders, and political debates have been favourite topics of our contributors. Front cover of one of the issues had facsimile of a world famous painting of a world famous painter of the history called Pablo Picasso. The painting was – Guernica. Guernica was a village in Spain – the motherland of Picasso. Senseless warriors destroyed it. The crying women, yelling children, scorching animals in this painting remind us of our own brutality – we the civilised one tear the flesh of each other with our teeth.
We have paid homage to Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Bhagat Singh, Mother Teresa and famous music director Naushad Ali and many more by putting their pictures on front cover or submitting an article on them.
Most of the readers of Samar are young children. They have been taking keen interest in various social issues. They have shown their penmanship on the issues of Reservation, Western culture, Right to Information, Religious Orthodoxy, Infatuation, Patriarchy, Democracy and scientific temperaments. These debates are always invited by Samar. There are always ample of spaces in pages of our coveted magazine for these genuine and youthful ideas. We have tried our best to provide information to young readers. There have been contributions from enthusiastic writers about geographical, economic, and cultural information of a particular country. We have told them about poor conditions of children in this world. The malnourishment among children is a case of sheer apathy of humans. On the other hand, we have provided brief history of world famous poets in each issue. These articles created a sense of poetry among youths, the literary discussions have been encouraged through these articles.
The canvas is very broad and brushes are highly varied. We have brought colour palettes with our selves and plucking colours from the nature and society. What we have painted till now is beautiful and fragrant, what we will create in coming years will be belligerent and alarming. We can do anything, because we know nothing is impossible.
Final word we can say on this auspicious occasion is that Time is the only parameter of our success. It will be testimony for our toil and labour. It will be presenter of our performances.
….. And it will be torch bearer of our long march to the goal of greater good of greater number of huddled, poor, deprived masses. And it will be done with decency of silence, elegance of work and later on someday it will open its chest of achievements. As somebody has said –
Waqt aane de bata denge tujhe aye Aasman
Hum abhi se kya batayen kya hamare dil mein hai
(Let the chosen moment arrive we will tell you O Heavens!
We can’t tell you at present what is our goal where we are going)
Thank you
Yours truly,
Editor
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