We all feel it, we make others experience it, and it’s a definite, intense part of our lives. This issue of Spark is all about experiencing different sides of guilt! Plunge into the fiction, poetry and non-fiction that we have in store for you.
A sense of guilt drives two people to take very different paths. While one struggles with it, another sees an opportunity. Vrushali Haldipur’s story examines the lives of two such conflicted individuals.
Suresh Subrahmanyan explores the complex subject of guilt, freely drawing from his own experiences as well as mining from the fertile field of English literature.
In Mohankumar’s poem, a sea captain speaks of someone else’s guilt on account of which he had to suffer.
Mirnalini Venkatraman describes her journey so far as a full-time working woman who also happens to be a mother, and how guilt seeps in more often than she would like.
A road accident unravels the many layers of love, anger and marriage, and of words spoken too soon or not at all. Komorebi is a love story of sorts, but one seen through the retrospective lens of guilt and regret.
The guilt of betrayal throbs like a wound, ushers withdrawal and carves a path of endless wait for deliverance for a man. However, as time passes by, he stops looking for deliverance because he learns how immune his guilt is to justifications. Anupam writes the man’s story in verse.
Shubha’s story traces the hate that a son has for his alcoholic father, which makes him keep letters from his father’s children from his previous marriage. What does he do when he’s confronted with a life-and-death situation?
There’s someone behind the door and he is hiding something. What could that be? Anupama Krishnakumar’s poem will tell you more.