Type Of Publisher
Online
Year Established
2013
Address
Pune, Maharashtra
Name
Anil Menon
Title
Editor-in-chief
Mission Statement / Editorial Focus
About Page: We are building a city. It will be a great city, a maximum city, a city built entirely out of possibility's raw materials: the written and the unwritten. We have been building this city for eight years and fifty issues and 263,000+ words, but looking upon the work, we see we have barely started. We are about this city. As with all great cities, this one also invites strangeness and surprise and the sense of being immersed in vastness no matter how small the encounter. It invites courage and boldness. Surrounded by ruin and heritage, it invites those who would start over. Those who would deny their identities, affirm it, reform it or take flight into unrecognizability altogether. Nothing is so important to this city that it cannot be ordinary. Nothing is so ordinary that it is unimportant. As you must have gathered by now, we care about the written word. Indeed, we are about showcasing how good writing is its own reason to be. Writers write for other reasons as well. A story or a poem may be written to be studied in seminars, sold in airports, advance social causes, challenge literature, give voice to the powerless, flatter the powerful, or test the limits of the reader's patience. We have no quarrel or preference regarding motives. However, we like to think about how something is written, not simply what it is about, or why it was written, or who wrote it, or which genre it belongs to. The how of this process is deeply linked to the what and why and where, and it is this relationship that fascinates us. We therefore publish writing that affect us as readers and writers. But what exactly is "good" writing? Regrettably, we can no more define this quality with many names than we could define the word "Bombay". The temptation to draw up criteria is hard to resist. But resist we will. What exists in relation is best left to misrecognition and discovery. We pay our builders, our beloved writers who come to work their art. Thanks to a generous grant from The Kolam Collective, we offer a honorarium of Rs. 5,000 (approx. $65) for their contributions. We do not know you, dear Visitor, but such is this City, we may nevertheless be friends. Look around, stay, and if you are so inclined, come, help us build.
Accepts Unsolicited Submissions
Yes
Average Unique Visitors Per Month
100
How Frequently Is Content Updated?
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