Spark’s July 2011 issue features a different kind of ‘Voices of the Month’ – three people, who, through their art, portray the beauty of weddings and marriages. Spark is proud to feature the works of Usha Shantharam, an artist based in Bangalore, and Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad, cartoonist/painter, as well as an interview with Maniyarasan Rajendran, a photographer specializing in wedding photography.
What happens when a wife discovers a love letter that her husband had written long ago? Jeevanjyoti Chakraborty unravels the emotions and the strange truth of a marriage through a story.
Magic with charcoal – Maheswaran Sathiamoorthy presents a sketch on the joy of togetherness.
A man who always thinks that he hasn’t got what he deserved lands up having a conversation with Lady Fortuna. While he rattles on about how from childhood to marriage, he has never received the best although he deserved it, Lady Fortuna points to the culprit and the most undesirable human quality that can mar happiness – the man’s arrogance or ego. Here is a story by Yayaati Joshi.
There are simply so many sides to the journey that marriage is. Jai Chabria captures some of them through his lens.
A wedding, a riot of colours, emotions, thoughts and people. And amidst of all this, another love deepens, and another future takes shape. Anupama Krishnakumar captures the wonderful moments in beautiful verse.
We have all attended some wedding that has had us bored out of our wits. Swetha Ramachandran tells us how she keeps herself occupied at such weddings, and gives us an interesting study of some of the characters one tends to meet.
Wedding revelry on one hand, an evening of cynicism, hunger and dreams on the other – Parth Pandya pens a poem on the different witnesses there are to a wedding.
Madhu, a teenaged wise owl, played an important role in altering the course of her sister’s life (for the better, of course) – or so she claims. Vani Viswanathan pens a story based on what happened, as narrated by smart alec Madhu, ridden with her parallels to Mani Ratnam movies.