Let’s bring you some joy this time! Read this compact and cosy issue with poetry, fiction and non-fiction around the theme ‘Joy’. We also have a beautiful photo essay that capture profound joy of different kinds.
Sroojana tells the story of how twenty, in a society that glorifies the sweet sixteens, twenty-fives and fifties, is a forgotten age. However, twenty is when you’re on the verge of the rest of your life, reeling from the puberty-ridden years of adolescence, which sparks the feeling of freedom, comfort… and joy.
Sriram’s photo essay outlines three instances of profound joy that he saw in his travels.
In the lives of two women brought together by circumstances, joy once lost slowly finds its way back. Anupama Krishnakumar writes a short story.
Preeth’s poem is about how in the unbridled quest for materialism, man is in grave danger of losing real joy in the process.
The themes of unwavering love, expressing it and, finding joy and contentment in this devotion are predominant in this free verse by Jyoti Verma. The gardener and her flowers are archetypal metaphors for devotion. A bunch of sunflowers’ ‘silliness’ is overcome when it embraces its essence and in doing so, makes the gardener happy too.
