As a man recalls his escape from struggle and penury, he is able to see relics of a number of good things he has unwittingly left behind while hastening his way out, things which make him reassess his choice of escape. A poem by Anupam Patra.
THE LOUNGE | SLICE OF LIFE Paris is known as the city of love and lights. But is that all? In her recent visit to this city, Anusha Singh discovered an air of liberation that women enjoy, something that she misses in most parts of India.
THE LOUNGE | TURN OF THE PAGE Subhashini reviews Parth Pandya’s ‘r2i: Return to India: A Tale of Living India-genously’, a memoir of an NRI’s journey back to India after spending two decades away from it. It is ‘an effortless read and the author’s incisive wit and wry humour keep the pages turning,’ she says.
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.