Introduction
The magazine derives its name “Golden Line” from the river Subarnarekha which flows down from Jharkhand, passes by few kms off the college and enters Odisha and meets the Bay of Bengal there. In the face of massive pollution caused by many hazardous human activities, the river is still flowing. We pay our sincere tribute to it and follow it as a pristine inspiration for life and creativity.
History
The Golden Line: A Magazine of English Literature was founded by Dr Pabitra Kumar Mishra, Principal of Bhatter College, Dantan and Prof Tarun Tapas Mukherjee, Head of the Department of English, Bhatter College, Dantan in 2015 as a collaborative platform involving teachers, researchers and students, artists for creating a magazine on Literature written in English, which would serve the needs and demands of academics, researchers and students of English literature both in India and abroad.
Scope
The collaborative platform of The Golden Line provides scope to students, scholars and academicians for scholarly discussions on interdisciplinary realm for further exposition, higher studies and research. We encourage publishing original research articles, creative pieces, interviews, reflections, and artist’s profiles, book reviews and so on from various academics, experts, researchers, scholars and students of Literature in the form of open online call. Our primary aim is to make readers engage in studying critically and enjoying diverse areas of Literature written in English as well in translation.
We felt that budding scholars after completing their varsities need both a magazine for accessing better resources, especially related to higher studies, particularly in India and a space for expressing their critical and creative talents and a network where students and scholars from various institutions can collaborate. We also wanted to open the windows to larger academic circles and higher studies and to promote innovative artistic creativity. The online platform helped us to connect with contributors from various countries and from various levels, particularly from students and scholars from various colleges and universities.
Aims and Objectives
The primary aim of the Magazine is to make students, scholars, academicians and artists engage in scholarly discussions on interdisciplinary realm for further exposition, higher studies and research. This international and peer-reviewed magazine is a succinct example of such an experimented online platform which publishes wonderful scholarly articles, reflections, interviews, creative works, reviews, artists’ profiles and so on. Precisely, it has the following aims and objectives:
- To publish regular scholarly articles on Literature written in English and in English translation.
- To represent enlightened interviews of several academicians, artists etc.
- To allow both students and scholars to have a space before the world to present their creative works.
- To acquaint the students with higher level of learning in their domain.
- To provide updates of the contemporary writers in English.
- To provide guidelines by experts on studying various domains of Literature written in English.
- To train the students and scholars both from India and abroad in online scholarly publishing.
- To minimize the informational gap among students of rural areas.
- To create awareness among both students and scholars about the necessity of publishing and encourage them to publish.
Areas of Discussion
- Literature written in English and in English Translation
- Cultural Studies
- Partition Studies
- Theater and Performance Studies
- Gender Studies
- Folklore Studies
- Translation Studies
- Film and Media Studies
- Dalit Studies
- Marginal Studies
- Environmental Studies
- Digital Humanities
Publication Frequency
- We bring out two regular issues in a year.
- Special issues may be undertaken depending upon the academic situation.
- We offer guest editing to take up thematic issues for publication.
- We offer publishing conference/ seminar proceedings.
Peer Review Process
All the materials submitted to the Editorial Team of The Golden Line undergo Peer Review Process.
Publication Ethics Statement
- We don’t accept plagiarized contents. If any piece of writing is found to be plagiarized, then Head of the Institution will be notified and steps will be taken to blacklist the contributor.
- In case there are multiple authors of a single piece of writing, the first author would generally be the person for correspondence. If the corresponding author is other than the first author, then a written statement is required from their end.
- We won’t appreciate unnecessary advertisement, promotion or defamation of any kind.
- We do not encourage articles that support/endorse violence against animals, environment, women, minorities and the marginals.
- We shall remain strictly neutral as far as possible in terms of Gender / Racial / Caste / Religious Issues.