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{{Infobox organization
| name = The Kobita Club
| image = Logo of The Kobita Club.jpg
| image_size = 250px
| caption = The Kobita Club logo
| founder = Surojit Chatterjee
| type = Literary Group
| founded_date = December 2011
| location = [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]], [[India]]
| area_served = Worldwide
| mission = To Promote Cultural, Social, Literary and Creative Awareness
| num_members = 1088+
| homepage = {{URL|www.thekobitaclub.com}}
}}

'''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 (band)|Bhoomi]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Web stars' dictionary |url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-05-05/news-interviews/31585434_1_web-stars-dictionary-poems |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025103703/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-05-05/news-interviews/31585434_1_web-stars-dictionary-poems |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-10-25 |date=2012-05-05 |newspaper=[[The Times of India]] |accessdate=2013-05-15}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120401/jsp/7days/story_15319787.jsp#.UZKxxatTAmE |title=Limelight |publisher=Telegraphindia.com |date=2012-04-01 |accessdate=2013-05-15}}</ref> The club is registered under the West Bengal Society Registration Act 1961.

== History ==

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.<ref>{{cite news |title=Website to archive Bengali poems |url=http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-09-29/news/34163787_1_archive-poetry-website |newspaper=Economic Times |agency=PTI |date=2012-09-29 |accessdate=2013-05-15}}</ref> With about 460 writings stacking one upon another Surojit Chatterjee decided to make a full-fledged website to archive the poems.<ref>{{cite news |author=Zinia Sen |date=2012-03-01 |title=Surojit turns to Facebook for movie lyrics |url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-03-01/news-and-interviews/31113181_1_poems-poetry-surojit |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130629123357/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-03-01/news-and-interviews/31113181_1_poems-poetry-surojit |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-06-29 |newspaper=[[The Times of India]] |accessdate=2013-05-15}}</ref>

On 28 September 2012, at YMCA Hall, Kolkata, Kobita Club officially launched its [http://www.kobitaclub.com website]. Bengali author and poet [[Sunil Gangopadhyay|Shri Sunil Gangopadhyay]] made the inauguration of the website.<ref>{{cite web|author=Hyderabad Deccan News |url=http://www.newswala.com/India-National-News/Surojit-of-Bhoomi-launches-portal-Kobita-Club-for-budding-poets-18615.html |title=Surojit of Bhoomi launches portal 'Kobita Club' for budding poets |publisher=Newswala.com |accessdate=2013-05-15 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130524210358/http://www.newswala.com/India-National-News/Surojit-of-Bhoomi-launches-portal-Kobita-Club-for-budding-poets-18615.html |archivedate=2013-05-24 }}</ref> Apart from poems, the website also contains paintings and photographs.

== Publications ==

Till date 5 e-magazines and 3 books have been published by the club.

=== E-magazines ===
E-magazines contains poems based on particular theme.
*The first e-magazine was the 'Jolrong', which was published on late March 2012. It contained poems based on the theme 'Jol' (water) and 'Rong'(Colors).
*It was followed by 'Bristi Buzz'. 'Bristi Buzz' was published on 5 July 2012; rainy season being the main theme of this magazine.
*'Dos-e-Dos' was published after one month. The poems in this magazine was limited to 10 lines.
*The 4th e-magazine that was published was 'Robi Chorit' on 5 September 2012. The magazine contained poems on various characters created by Rabindranath Tagore.
*The 5th e-magazine, 'Hese Khun', which was published on 6 October 2012 was made up of humorous poems.<ref name="telegraphindia1">{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130512/jsp/calcutta/story_16887539.jsp#.UZKxwatTAmE |title=Humour pill for IPL blues |publisher=Telegraphindia.com |date=1999-03-01 |accessdate=2013-05-15}}</ref>

[[File:Kobita Club Dot Com 2.png|thumb|কবিতা ক্লাব প্রকাশিত দ্বিতীয় কবিতা সংকলন। ১০২ জন কবি বন্ধুর ১০২ টি কবিতা।]]

=== Books ===
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'.<ref>{{cite news |title=Surojit launches poetry collection |url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-02-04/news-interviews/36741674_1_poetry-collection-poetry-club-ghorir |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130629123431/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-02-04/news-interviews/36741674_1_poetry-collection-poetry-club-ghorir |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-06-29 |date=2013-02-04 |newspaper=[[The Times of India]] |accessdate=2013-05-15}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Surojit to release his book of poetry |url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-12-06/news-interviews/35621186_1_tollywood-composer-surojit-bondhura-kobita-club-young-poets |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130629122524/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-12-06/news-interviews/35621186_1_tollywood-composer-surojit-bondhura-kobita-club-young-poets |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-06-29 |date=2012-12-06 |newspaper=[[The Times of India]] |accessdate=2013-05-15}}</ref>

In the year 2014, at Kolkata International Book Fair 2014, Kobita Club launched its second poem collection entitled ''Kobita Club Dot Com 2''<ref>{{cite web|title=Surojit O Bondhura Launched New Book Kobita Club Dot Com 2|url=http://www.demotix.com/news/3801387/surojit-o-bondhura-launched-new-book-kobita-club-dot-com-2#media-3801263|website=demotix.com/|publisher=Demotix|accessdate=30 January 2014}}</ref>'. 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.<ref>http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/experimentation-with-short-stories-may-turn-viral-sanjib-114080401557_1.html</ref>
<ref>http://indiablooms.com/ibns_new/life-details/LIT/259/short-story-collections-released-in-kolkata.html</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.newswala.com/India-National-News/Alpo-Kathay-Goppo-collection-of-60-short-stories-released-in-Kolkata-73409.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=2014-08-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140813011148/http://www.newswala.com/India-National-News/Alpo-Kathay-Goppo-collection-of-60-short-stories-released-in-Kolkata-73409.html |archive-date=2014-08-13 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

== Recent works ==

Indian recitation band Mahul is working with the Kobita Club from the year 2013 to promote literary awareness.<ref name="telegraphindia1"/>

== References ==

{{reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{Official website|http://www.kobitaclub.com|Kobita Club official website}}
*[http://kobita.banglakosh.com Kobita] (Read)
*[https://www.banglakobita.top/ Famous Bangla Kobita]
*[https://www.bangla-news.com/indian-bangla-newspaper/ Bangla Kobita of Kolkata]
*[https://banglashikha.com/ Bangla Kobita Collection]

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[[Category:Poetry organizations]]
[[Category:Bengali poetry]]
[[Category:Indian writers' organisations]]

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