Anuranan is an annual, online, peer-reviewed, Bengali language international journal that features research articles on various issues related to the social sciences and humanities. Anuranan seeks to foster a critical dialogue on culture, literature, history, politics, media and society through both intellectual and aesthetic lenses. Articles take a critical stance toward their subject matter in order to render them more lucid and comprehensible. The journal also publishes book reviews and review essays, research notes and short essays of special interest in special thematic issues.

“Anuranan” in Bengali means the quality of being deep and reverberating. It also means a quality of enriched significance, profundity, or allusiveness. Similarly, this journal aims to evoke a sense of enriched significance and genuine profundity through energetic and continuing dialogue, debate and elucidation of the various aspects of society, culture and the arts, especially in Bengali language.

As an on-line publication, Anuranan: An International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences offers an ideal opportunity for advancing broad and easy communication. The choice of the internet as the distributive platform eliminates the need for institutional subsidy and high subscription rates, thus offering a renewed sense of independence and freedom from bureaucratic restrictions. Dispensing with printing technology removes space restrictions and allows the publication of a large number of scholarly works on a regular basis that meets the journal’s scholarly and editorial standards. Moreover, as an on-line publication, Anuranannprovides texts that can easily be downloaded, copied, searched for key concepts, and excerpted without the need for scanning or re-typing, although remaining within the ambit of the Creative Commons copyright license. This kind of publication also allows us to make full use of additional materials to supplement the text, such as images, links, musical examples, and other online media contents. Most of all, an on-line publication, Anuranan: An International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences offers easy and universal accessibility.

Anuranan invites scholars and writers to submit high-quality written works in Bengali language, presenting original research with profound ideas and insightful thoughts that could potentially inaugurate avenues to new perspectives in the fields of humanities and social sciences and move away from narrow disciplinary focus.