A-Padartha 3 news letter

Nomenclature:

‘A-padartha’ is the name of our magazine – This is a Sanskrit word, also used in Bengali.

‘A-padartha’ – Means a precious thing or object.

Apadartha – the word as a whole means someone who is worthless (good for nothing kind of character)

History:

Many of us have a creative side to our personality, but very few take initiatives to materialize them.

 So, after passing out of college, we, the classmates of 2007 batch of IIT, Madras, decided to do something more than just solving equations of Physics.

And this thought provoked us to bring to life our own magazine, where we can transform our creativity to something meaningful and reachable to people.

The publication of the articles for the first edition of the magazine was restricted only to the members of the magazine, as it was the first one and we were not sure about the outcome. Since all of us are novice in this field, the work was quite challenging for us. Many were hesitant to submit articles as they were open to public criticism.

The publication of our first magazine was very successful and brought us an overwhelming response of over 400 people from all over the world, who visited our blog. We printed 50 hard copies of the magazine and distributed it among friends in Kolkata, India.

After the successful publication of our magazine we went a step further to make the publication biannual. The second edition of the magazine proved to be a grand success inviting almost 900 individual visitors for the magazine. We got contributions in the form of stories, poems, pictures, paintings, sketches, and general articles from people living in India, Japan, USA, and Europe.

After the successful publication of our first two editions of the magazine, we are now looking forward for the third edition, which we are planning to publish in October 2010.

Information for Contributors:

We are open to all forms of articles like short stories; articles on science, commerce, and arts; poems, or describing ones experience or point of view about any topic. We also welcome painting, photographs, and sketches.

Most of our articles are in Bengali, since the native language of many of us is Bengali. But we do have some good English articles as well and would like to increase the number.

For further information and guidelines of submission please visit http://apadartha-online-magazine.blogspot.com/

Last date for submission of first draft: 07.09.2010.

Date of online publication of magazine:

07.10.2010. (On the auspicious occasion of ‘Mahalaya’ which marks the beginning of the famous Indian festival ‘Durga puja’)

A-padartha team