Editorial Note, Nov-Dec, 2011

The current issue of Social Scientist carries the first instalment of the papers presented at a seminar organized by Sahmat on the Progressive Cultural Movement (‘Awaaz Do: Legacy  and Relevance of the Progressive Cultural Movement in India’, 13–15 October 2011, New Delhi). There  were a large number of papers presented at the seminar, and subsequent issues will be carrying  other papers. In addition to the seminar papers, we are publishing two other pieces in the current  issue. One is the Presidential Address of Munshi Premchand at the founding conference of the Progressive Writers’ Association in 1936, and the other is a review article by E.M.S. Namboodiri-pad, then General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), on the collection of  documents of the progressive cultural movement brought out by Sudhi Pradhan.