Many Indians speak English that reeks of Tautology or the excessive usage of words to convey the same meaning, says Yayaati Joshi, elaborating more on this not-so-good trend. While this is something laugh at, it’s something to give some serious thought to, too. Read on.
Spark turns one-and-a-half, July 2011! In our journey over the last 18 months, the team at Spark has had the privilege of presenting to you columns and interviews featuring some amazing thinkers, celebrities who are frontrunners in their fields, as well as writers taking the literary world by storm. And to celebrate this special milestone, we are delighted to bring to you a compilation of these interviews and columns featured in Spark since January 2010 in ‘Sparkling Thoughts’. Sparkling Thoughts presents to you a smorgasbord of opinions on books, writing, art and topics as diverse as parenting, publishing, religion, teaching, social work, travel and cinema. Please click here to find out more about this print-on-demand book and the link to order for the same! We hope you will buy a copy and encourage us! 🙂
Journeys, Destinations, Memories and More. Yes, that’s really the essence of what the Spark team has produced in response to the theme, ‘My Place, My Soul’. Here we present four personal experiences, each touching gently on the facets we seek to explore through this edition. Journey time, folks!
The February 2011 issue is in a way a stories-special. Our writers have come up with a variety of stories that explore the many different relationships that exist in this world. We provide links to all these stories here.
One thing that most of us would have done as a child. Art by Amrita Sarkar.