Suresh Subrahmanyan goes on a mining expedition and comes up with nuggets from his life experiences, which provided transient and lasting moments of intense joy and light- headedness.
There’s something beautiful about the sparkling eyes of a child that sees a bunch of balloons. For Soumita Saha balloons are synonymous with fun and she presents her take on the theme in her artwork done on handmade paper with wooden colour pencils.
Is something fun only when it belongs to that moment? Can one enjoy looking back over something and derive fun out of it? Shreya Ramachandran fondly remembers a meeting with her friend at a particularly interesting point of time in their lives.
Parminder Singh’s story tries to unveil the other side of the coin on one side of which ‘fun’ is inscribed.
The word “fun” takes many people back to their childhood when everything, even falling on the cricket ground or skinning their knees, was fun and something new. Himangshu Dutta’s evokes childhood innocence when the world was a wonderful possibility waiting to happen.
M.Mohankumar’s poem is about a housemaid who throws in a word or two in English in between conversations, sometimes to unfortunately comical results.
Fun as a concept of learning is slowly gaining popularity. And rightly so! Priya Gopal discusses at length about why classrooms need to become centres of fun for learning to become an enjoyable experience for school children.
Meenu decides to surprise her family by travelling home from her college on the eve of her 18th birthday without them knowing. The night, however, has more surprises in store for Meenu. Wasif Hameed tells the story.
This month, Spark is all about lessons – from school, college, work and life! Our “Pedagogy: On Education and Learning” issue explores the art/science of teaching, education methodologies, and teachers and their experiences. The issue is an interesting mix of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Our feature for the month is an interview with Bindu Subramaniam and Ambi Subramaniam from SaPa, a school that teaches Carnatic and western classical music.