Indu Parvathi’s verse weaves in the theme of escape by capturing the scene at a park one evening.
When nature decides to strike, there is little one can do to escape her wrath. Even if one is lucky enough to emerge unscathed, there is little guarantee that life will continue to remain the same. Preeth Ganapathy’s poem is about one such ‘escape’.
Chandramohan Nair recollects the time in his youth when he could face life’s challenges with optimism, energised as he was by a talent for daydreaming.
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.