Samar: South Asian Magazine for Action and Reflection

17 July 2010
Samar: South Asian Magazine for Action and Reflection
Samar: South Asian Magazine for Action and Reflection
Website: http://www.samarmagazine.org/
Email Address: submissions@samarmagazine.org
Editor/Founder: Undisclosed
Country: USA/South Asian diaspora
Type: Online magazine

Description: 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.

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