An Urdu research journal, published from Darbhanga
Refereed scholarship in Urdu, in print and in PDF, four times a year.
2395-2016
The journal’s registered serial number.
Four a year
Published quarterly, in print and as an instant PDF.
13 issues
Every volume we still hold is listed in the shop.
Refereed
Read by the editorial board before it goes to print.
Dr. Mansoor Khushtar
Poet, critic and editor — born in Darbhanga, 1986.
Dr. Mansoor Khushtar edits Darbhanga Times from the journal’s office in Darbhanga. Alongside the journal he writes his own criticism and poetry — among them Kuchh Mahfil-e-Khuban Ki (2015), Naqd-e-Afsana (2016), Tarzi Aur Ijtihad-e-Sheri (2018) and Kasa-e-Dil — and has compiled a number of anthologies, including Ikkiswin Sadi Mein Urdu Ghazal (2017) and Bihar Me Bachon Ka Adab Kal Aur Aaj (2021), a survey of writing for children in Urdu in Bihar.
Editorial office: Shaukat Ali House, Purani Munsifi, Lalbagh, Darbhanga, Bihar 846004.
A selection of his books can also be read at Rekhta.
From manuscript to print
Every paper takes the same four steps, whether it arrives from Darbhanga or from a university abroad.
Submission
Send your manuscript to the editorial office with your name, postal address and telephone number, and say which section of the journal it is meant for.
Editorial reading
The editor reads everything that arrives and decides whether it goes forward to the board. We reply either way.
Referee and revision
Papers are read by the editorial board. Where changes are wanted we write back with them before anything is set in type.
Print and PDF
Accepted work appears in the next volume — posted as a printed copy and available the same day as a PDF.
Write for Darbhanga Times
The journal reads work in Urdu on language, literature and criticism, alongside short fiction and poetry.
Send your manuscript with your name, postal address and telephone number, and say which section of the journal it is intended for. Institutional and library orders are arranged through the same office.
Every issue, in print or as an instant PDF
Digital ₹299 · Printed copy ₹499, posted anywhere in India.