About Us
Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities (ISSN 0975-2935) is a non-profit non-commercial open access journal, featuring peer-reviewed articles and book reviews on interdisciplinary cross-currents in the humanities. The Journal derives its name from ‘rup’ (form) and ‘katha’ (words), which, when combined, mean ‘myth’ in Bengali. The journal gets its inspiration from the etymology and goes by the principle that anything which has a form, visual or mental, can come under focus.Rupkatha started as an Open Access initiative in India in 2008 and continues to support and spread awareness about OA in India and abroad. In conformity with this, the content of publications is primarily guided by the open nature of knowledge, and the journal is free to access from any corner of the world. Read more
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Why Interdisciplinary Studies?
Prof. Tirtha Prasad Mukhopadhyay, our Chief Editor explains: "Interdisciplinary Studies is the need of the hour. The fundamental idea for interdisciplinarity derives from an evolutionary necessity; namely the need to confront and interpret complex systems...this means that [a] the entities that we investigate within the environment of contemporary science are perceived to be more like organic or inter-related complexes. The entity that is studied [say like one from logistics, or psychiatry, or dietary cuisine, for examples] can no longer be analyzed in terms of an object of ‘biology’ or ‘chemistry’, but as a contending hierarchy of components which could be studied under the rubric of multiple or variable branches of knowledge...Read more
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief: Tirtha Prasad Mukhopadhyay
Editor: Tarun Tapas Mukherjee
Art Editor: Reynaldo Thompson
Advisory Board: Anne M. Mabry, Basudeb Chakraborti, Indranath Chowdhury, K. Satchidanandan, Sanjukta Dasgupta, Shormishtha Panja
Review Board: Amrit Sen, Anita Singh, Asha Choubey, Ashes Gupta, Carolyn Horton Harford, Fatima Fernandez Morales, Himadri Lahiri, Indrani Datta (Chaudhuri), Indranil Acharya, James B. Kelley, Pramod K. Nayar, Punyashree Panda, Sajal Kumar Bhattacharya, Sudeshna Mukherjee, Vibha Sharma, Vicky Sue Gilpin Know more
Chitrolekha Magazine
Chitrolekha International Magazine on Art and Design (ISSN 2231-4822) is an Open Access initiative from Rupkatha. It aims at exploring the world of art, design, local history and culture. The next issue of Chitrolekha is going to be on the Pictorial Tradition of Bengal. Visit the site