The Idea-smithy

I think human beings go through four stages in their beliefs about life and the world around them.
Firstly there’s childhood (the golden era) when everything is an excuse for curiosity and a source of magical wonder…friendship, love, games, food, adulthood…*sigh*
Then there’s adolescence, the age of experimentation. It is all about erasing the limits (or blurring [...]

After the battle has been won
And the blood washed off
And the wounds healed
And the tears dried
You step into life again
And take tentative, halting steps back into the world of living
And the pounding of your heart becomes thundering drumbeats
And you’re strides get longer and stronger and faster
And for one brief moment
Just before you lift up
You freeze [...]

I hate myself today
Didn’t call when I said I would
Basked in a compliment I knew I didn’t deserve
Smiled and fumed internally after I promised I wouldn’t react
Haven’t done oodles of chores that I should have completed months ago
Stayed in bed when the doorbell rang so someone else would get it
Brooded over the ten times I [...]

Galatea of the spheres – Salvador Dali 
We were strolling down the road when a man stopped us. All he wanted was ‘pachaas paisa’. How many of us remember what pachaas paisa is worth? He was wearing a clean albeit torn white shirt, trousers and spectacles. Quite stoically he put the coin into the little cloth [...]

Some day, I will write a novel
Some day, I will get up on time and not be late for a single thing all day
Some day, I will smile the whole day and not wince, pout, scowl or frown even once
Some day, I will learn music and be the polished diamond, not the uncut one
Some day, [...]

A few years ago there was an ad by the Mumbai traffic police with the tagline:
Some people have a really good reason to break the rules. Make sure you do too.
The accompanying visual showed a sketch of an old man in a white dhoti bending over and picking up something from the ground. Mohandas Karamchand [...]

I’m starting off a brand new day
Turn the clock to zero honey
You’ll never know how much I missed you.
I’m thinking in a brand new way
- ‘Brand New Day’, Sting
I’d love to believe there is still goodness left in the world
I’d love to think that the people who hurt me were weak, not bad
I’d love to [...]