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Editorial Team:
We have a distributed Editing Model. Our subject specific editors are spread over many geographies. Most of them are professionals in diverse fields but kept the wordsmith in them alive, in spite of the angst of earning and sustaining a living.
Editor-at-Large Pritam Bhattacharyya would be co-coordinating with all of them and in that case he can be considered as a proto-Editor. He can be reached at editor@pentasect.com.
Here is the executive summary of our Editorial Policy – arrived at after many sessions of structured and unstructured calls, emails, discussions and disagreements:
- Pentasect is not a specialist magazine and will mercilessly avoid any specialism per se.
- Being showcasing creative works of known and unknown wordsmiths, we would like the works to be provocative, sensitive, critical and written with passion and involvement.
- Brevity is the soul of the wit and hence we would like works to be within reasonable size. The time limit of the setting of eye-strains in online media is much lesser compared to books. Since our readers would read for joy and not for fulfilling some assignment (as most of us do in our office lives), this brevity issue is paramount in nature.
- We welcome and celebrate personal anxieties and memories. For example, we would focus more on what goes inside a resident’s mind while he finds his neigbouring market bulldozed to make a mall (or green fields made into a factory), rather than going into an academic or political debate of the same. We argue that there are other forum and establishment to run this debate more effectively and usefully. We remain faithful to the fragile, ambigious and mysterious zone of The Personal.
- Pentasect does not believe in greed and mania driven growth – be it of number of readers, no of works, revenue, adverts and so on. We are not prisoner of arithmetic, either of the sensex or that of investment bankers.
- We are not a deep-pocketed, megalithic, hugely ambitious corporation or venture. We are experimenters and innovators in a sense that a cook, within his or her narrow, personalized and inner recess experiments with little or more sweet, or this or that ingredient. We would like to retain this flavour of the personal.
- We would not have a Call Centre, automatized emailing, and productivity increasing tools to de-humanize the experiment. Your Editor would answer direct. (preferably email)
