The Modern Review was a monthly magazine published in Calcutta founded and edited by Ramananda Chatterjee.

[2] It carried essays on politics, economics, sociology, as well as poems, stories, travelogues, and sketches.

Another indication of the journal's stature was the publication, within its pages, of Jawaharlal Nehru's pseudonymous autocritique Rashtrapati, by ‘Chanakya’ in November 1937.

This meant that it could act as an all-India forum and that it stood apart from party journals concurrently run by the Indian National Congress, the Communists, the Muslim League, the Khaksar Tehrik Hindu Mahasabha, and the Scheduled Castes Federation.

The Hindu Guru Swami Nigamananda's collection Thakurer Chithi was published in this magazine in 1941 (other reference date:26 December 1938).