Fourteen-year-old Ipshita has questions about her late arrival and her place in the family. Her mother, though not revealing the odds she faced for wanting to have a girl, tells Ipshita exactly how it all happened! The story, by Gauri Trivedi, is an attempt to highlight the fact that even in some well-educated, urban Indian families the girl child is not as welcome as a male child. Read on.
She is a woman who is bold, a woman who daringly meets the challenges that life throws at her everyday. She is the woman who serves the food and wine. Satish Pendharkar writes an ode to a waitress.
THE LOUNGE | SLICE OF LIFE “This is a true story. A story about some bicycles, mopeds, scooters. And me. And how our lives have criss-crossed from when I was as young as five,” writes Anupama Krishnakumar, fondly recalling memories of cycles and two-wheelers she has grown up with since childhood.
THE LOUNGE | THE INNER JOURNEY The right way to understand reality is through the process of intimate feeling of one’s existence, rather than intellectualizing and making a theory of the message about the absolute reality. This is the right and total action says Viswanathan Subramanian.
THE LOUNGE| TURN OF THE PAGE Vinita Agrawal reviews the book ‘Saved by the Light’ by Dannion Brinkley, which she says is an intriguing confession of the various revelations that a man who died twice experienced. However, it is this very metaphysical nature of this book that also makes it difficult to endorse it, she opines.
It’s the month of February, and like it or not, love is literally in the air! The world screams of shades of red and pink, and roses and hearts meet the eye more often than not. Spark too celebrates the spirit of Romance this month and presents to you an intriguing line-up of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, art and photography that reflect on the concept of ‘Romance’. Click here to access the issue on our e-reader, ISSUU.
In a way, this issue is a celebration of Romance through poetry. This is hardly surprising, for, don’t poetry and romance thrive together? We have five poems in this issue that explore the different facets of love. Click here to access these poems.
Blogger itchingtowrite @ The Reading Corner lists her favourite works of Romance from the written world, most of them works of fiction that were released in 2012. Have you read these books yet?
Loreto M captures the spirit of romance in a poem that beautifully brings about the comfort zones existing in the most unexpected of places. Read on.