August 2010 Issue

Dear Readers,

We are back with the second issue of Pothiz! We are really happy with the overwhelming response we continue to get from the readers & writers of all sorts. We hope we continue to improve with every coming issue and become a staple in everybody's reading list.

The Featured Entry 'Forbidden Love' is an interesting, even if slightly tragic, story of our increasingly mobile population. 'Excreta etc.' and 'Just Like That' are the stories of ordinary moments, ordinary things, ordinary people, which manage to impact us in strangely powerful ways. We liked 'The Long Road Home' for its interesting style of writing and 'Matrimonially, perfect' for its simplicity of concept. 'Light of the Day' is about the eternal confusion of young people about marriage! In this edition we also have a story translated from Oriya called 'A Log of Wood'. The original story is by Basanta Kumar Satpathy who is a well known Oriya writer. The story draws a vivid picture of rural Oriya society with all its inequalities and exploitation.

We received many good poems this time and selecting from them was really difficult. We have picked up seven of them here and we hope the poetry lovers amongst you enjoy them.

As usual, do give your feedback to us as well as to the writers through the comments.

Given the number of entries, it is becoming difficult for our editorial team to process the entries in short span of 10-15 days. So, we have decided to bring out Pothiz once in two months. This should also give the writers more time to write their entries. The next issue will come out in October and you have the time till September 15, 2010 to submit your entries. So, start writing right away.

Pothi.com Team