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Dear Reader,
Happy New Year and we hope you’ve started 2013 on a great note! We at the Spark team are absolutely delighted to bring to you our third anniversary issue – my, my, we can’t believe it’s been three years! It’s been a splendid journey so far and we want to thank you for being with us every step of the way with your readership, contributions, comments and of course, for passing the word around about us! So on this joyous occasion, we wanted to celebrate the very thing about Spark that we feel makes us special – our variety! In this Potpourri issue, you will find art, fiction, poetry, non-fiction and photography that celebrate this variety – together we feel it’s the perfect way for us to kick-start another year of creativity. Click here to access the January 2013 issue on the ereader, ISSUU.
One of Spark’s core defining factors has been the columns and interviews we have published in all our issues over the last three years. This exercise has been an immensely rewarding and a spectacular learning experience for us in many ways, including but definitely not limited to gaining a deeper understanding of how people approach their areas of expertise, realising that it is their passion, intelligence, persistence and a certain humility that has taken them to where they are today, and of course, receiving our biggest reward—that of Wisdom – that’s something we have received in copious amounts during our interactions. We felt nothing would be a more befitting tribute to all the wonderful people who agreed to share their thoughts with us than bringing out a compilation of the best of our conversations. Not to mention, a small gift to all our dear readers who have read and supported us through the last three years. Ladies and gentlemen, presenting joyfully —the best of what they said.
Some of the featured personalities of 2012 share their thoughts on Spark and convey their good wishes on the third anniversary.
The narrator waits longingly for his friend Jo, and is drawn into a flashback that involves lost friendships and disappointment, until Jo came along to make a difference. Anjali Krishna tells us the story of a warm relationship.
Trains are an integral part of any image of Mumbai, and being able to efficiently navigate this convoluted system is a mark that you now ‘truly belong’ and are a ‘Bombay girl.’ Vani Viswanathan describes her journey to truly belonging to the city of dreams.
In a poem that explores a very interesting theme, Arun Anantharaman captures his perception of the happenings in an apartment complex’s association meeting. Read on.