Amritha is a new mother, desperately trying to cope with the arduous challenges of motherhood. Between the constant demands of a wailing baby, no one to turn to for help and support and an overwhelming sense of exhaustion, she’s almost at her wits end when a letter arrives from Darjeeling.
Letters could be companions in loneliness by invoking memories, stresses Jyothsnaphanija, through her poem. Read on.
A woman faces the prospect of selling her house, when a letter from her late husband sets her off on a new plan to save it. Sudha Nair tells the story.
In this era of smartphones where messages and mails have literally got the curtains down on the art of handwritten letters, what has happened of the mailbox? What must be its state of mind now that it is more or less out of job and no one even bothers to give a second look? Rajlakshmi Pillai writes an article on the mailbox’s perspective.
Enjoy a freewheeling issue of Spark this month, with our ‘Kaleidoscope’ issue! This month, we have a wonderful mix of poetry, non-fiction and fiction that span a wide range of topics under the sun. We hope you enjoy reading through the issue! Cover Image by Neha Doshi.
A man, admired by many for his athletic figure and handsome looks, contemplates his face standing before a mirror. M. Mohankumar’s poem conjures the thoughts running in the man’s mind.
Don’t stories live their lives? Don’t they dream like us? Don’t they evolve? Don’t they aspire to be extraordinary like we do? Isn’t each of us a story after all? This is a story of one such story named Tix. By Rajarshi Banerjee.
Hari Ravikumar writes a poem on jnana, bhakti, and karma yoga, traditionally identified as the three paths to moksha.
The choices we make today resonate throughout our lives. If given a chance, would you still make the same choice which you made in the past? How much of your present are you going to sacrifice to secure how much of your future? In this allegorical story, Vishal Anand meditates on the limitations of leading a life on the edge, without a wide margin, and the emotional turbulence it may bring to us in the future.