The Jadavpur University Department of English brings you The Jabberwocky, the bimonthly departmental magazine.
Through the ages, many incarnations of the departmental magazine have emerged and done the rounds for a few issues (admirable ones, no doubt) and then gone to sleep the sleep of the righteous. Many have often been resuscitated for future ventures under different editorships and it is time "The Jabberwocky" (the Editorial Board initially thought of naming it "Ye Olde Jabberwocky" or "Ye Auld Jabber
wocky" but a certain faculty member black-mailed them by threatening dire consequences and prevented them from naming it so) [1] [2] haunts the dusty corridors and stinking washrooms of Kolkata – 32 [3] again. Despite interference from the faculty (GRRRR!), the brave and valiant Editorial Board decided to keep the tone of the old Jabberwocky and following that tone try to keep the magazine as irreverent and obnoxious as possible. The idea for this venture was hatched on the English Department ledge, a spot that has witnessed many an erudite debate about completely irrelevant details of obscure things and discourses and rants which equal early N**i propaganda in obnoxiousness, not to mention numerous japes, jokes and jocularities in the form of puns, insults and random comments in extremely poor taste. It is our expectation that The Jabberwocky will be able to preserve some of this spirit.
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[1] This is, of course, rumor, hearsay and indecorous slander and I shall have the reader know that the magazine does not stand by it. So there. – The Pehelwan
[2] No Jabberwocky, no money. – ‘Tis Pity I'm An Editor
[3] The corridors and washrooms of the University are actually squeaky-clean. Come and verify this fact during the next NAAC visit, okay? – The Lazing Lemur
