How about a super cool issue to beat the scorching heat of summer? We are totally excited to bring to you the May 2017 issue of Spark with the theme ‘As You Like It’! We love the variety of ideas that our contributors have brought into this edition and we have not just fiction, non-fiction and poetry this time but some splendid art and photography too! Go ahead and check out this mixed bag issue. You are sure to love the eclectic mix of ideas and writing styles we have in store for you this month!
Nilesh Mondal’s poem talks about a woman’s road to literacy, even though it comes late in her life. Her feelings about easing into this new role of a student are bittersweet to her though.
Abhinav Kumar writes a humorous account of three friends in search of a rare Kashmiri delicacy in New Delhi, drawn from personal experience.
Stephen Philip Druce writes two poems, ‘The Gardener and the Rose’ and ‘Wedding Nausea” for this mixed bag issue. Read on.
Sourav Pattanayak writes a poem in memory of his favourite pen which has gone missing. By extension, the poem also remembers and addresses his favourite people in life.
Chandramohan Nair writes about the excitement of learning to fly a kite and then moving on to his first kite fight in distant Kathmandu almost half a century ago.
We feature two works of art from Sana Khan’s series, “Legs Must Go On”. Medium : Oil on Canvas.
Suresh Subrahmanyan dusts off and presents an unpublished article he wrote 41 years ago in 1976, little realising the prescient and portentous implications this humorously imagined piece was to have on the world of cricket, a few decades later. Or to put it another way, instant replays and the third umpire were still a distant dream in the ‘70s.
When an individual comes face to face with himself or herself, a very unusual rendering of one’s own self may happen…A poem by Saikat Das.