An unexpected rendezvous provides Priyamvada an opportunity to find closure to a past relationship. Chaithali’s story has a funny twist to how Priyamvada achieved this.
THE LOUNGE | TURN OF THE PAGE Ajay Patri reviews ‘The Return’ by Hisham Matar, a harrowing but humane memoir about the conflict in Libya and the toll it exacted on the author’s life.
THE LOUNGE | SLICE OF LIFE Suresh Subrahmanyan gets nostalgic, and a tad misty-eyed about his childhood romance with the Radio, the BBC in particular. His love for the English language he largely attributes, among other things, to the BBC World Service broadcasts.
THE LOUNGE | STORYBOARD Soumyadeep Chatterjee writes about how Chaitanya Tamhane showed him that courtroom dramas usually occur without the element of drama, at least in this part of the world, through his Marathi film ‘Court’.
We feel truly overwhelmed when we think of how far we have come from when we started out as a small team taking our first steps in the online lit mag world, in January 2010. Today, Spark, the online literary magazine, is SEVEN years old! The January 2017 issue is a Potpourri of several creative ideas and we believe it represents what we stand for: a platform that showcases great creative thinking. We hope you enjoy this issue and we look forward to your support as we step into the eighth year of our journey to discover word, world and wisdom through writing, art and photography!
On a routine train journey past sugarcane fields, Jyothi Vinod takes a small detour to revisit happy times.
Suresh Subrahmanyan reflects on the joys, travails and commitment involved in bringing up a pet dog – a salutary lesson for children who pester their parents to bring home a cute little puppy.
This story is about a girl who seeks freedom to live her life as she wishes. Her mother wants to enforce the traditional goalpost of marriage on Chungum unwilling to accept that there are other ways to fulfillment. Chungum is forced to break free.
From restarting her classical music learning to consciously working on loving herself, Anupama Krishnakumar shares what she believes is her doable five-point resolution-checklist for 2017.