Kobita Club
The Kobita Club logo
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| Founded | December 2011 |
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| Founder | Surojit Chatterjee |
| Type | Literary Group |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Members
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1088+ |
| Mission | To Promote Cultural, Social, Literary and Creative Awareness |
| Website | www |
The Kobita Club is a literary group consisting of poetry lovers, specifically Bengali. The club was founded in early December 2011 by Surojit Chatterjee, music director and lead vocalist of Bangla Band, Surojit O Bondhura & Bhoomi. The Kobita Club was later developed as a website, where poets and poetry lovers all over the world, share creative thoughts and expressions in the form of poetry. The club is registered under the West Bengal Society Registration Act 1961.
In December 2011, as a concept of writing poetry, Surojit Chatterjee asked the members of The Kobita Club to write lines following 'Ar bhallagena tomay chhara....' in the 'Surojit O Bondhura Kobita Club' social networking page. With about 460 writings stacking one upon another Surojit Chatterjee decided to make a full-fledged website to archive the poems.
On 28 September 2012, at YMCA Hall, Kolkata, Kobita Club officially launched its website. Bengali author and poet Shri Sunil Gangopadhyay made the inauguration of the website. Apart from poems, the website also contains paintings and photographs.
Till date 5 e-magazines and 3 books have been published by the club.
E-magazines contains poems based on particular theme.
Kobita club published its first book KobitaClub.Com, on 30 January 2013 in the Kolkata Book Fair under Patra Bharati Publications. The book contained 101 poems of different poets across the world and is described as '101 ti sadharon kobita noy'.
In the year 2014, at Kolkata International Book Fair 2014, Kobita Club launched its second poem collection entitled Kobita Club Dot Com 2'. The book contains 102 new poems of different poets across the world.
Kobita Club with Patrabharati Publishers launched its first short stories collection, Alpo Kathay Gappo on 4 August 2014 in the presence of popular litterateur Sanjib Chattopadhyay and poet Krishna Basu at Niranjan Sadan. Alpo Kathay Goppo includes 60 different short stories written by the members of The Kobita Club from all over the world.
Indian recitation band Mahul is working with the Kobita Club from the year 2013 to promote literary awareness.
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