The Idea-smithy

THE SUITS:
Black: Spades, Clubs
Red: Hearts, Diamonds
IN A SUIT:
A King
A Queen
A Jack
An Ace
9 numbers
Joker.
Each suit, a kingdom unto itself. The land of Diamonds, the army of Clubs, the team of Spades, the people of Hearts. The wealthy, the warriors, the workers and the whimsical.
See how the King and the Queen they revel in their painted glory. [...]

General zingers
· You deserve an Oscar for the best impersonation of a human being that I’ve ever seen.
· If I were politically correct, I’d refer to you as cranially challenged
· Of course there are a lot of people who care about you; they call themselves PETA
· They named an element after you…it is unstable and [...]

Yesterday you asked me who it was
…who was the cause for my new look
…whose attention was I trying to catch
…who was giving me dreams that made me smile
What else would you ask me if I spoke your name in reply each time?
Would you change if I said I was falling
and hoping you’d be there to [...]

My first attempt at a post of some intelligence value…how about I start with a big question running through the heads of several twenty-somethings? I find I’ve gradually shifted out of asking for advice to the one being asked for advice. I have been impromptu counselor for several younger friends or siblings of friends, daunted [...]

Chunnu padhta Daaimundd ko-mix
Munni padhti Daaimundd ko-mix
Mazedaar hai Daaimundd ko-mix
Sabko bhata Daaimundd ko-mix
Every railway station and corner newspaper stall would display the toilet-roll thin paper illustrated in bright splotchy colours and depicting the adventures of a handlebar-whiskered, nest-size-turbanned man* and his gold-hoop-eared, black shorts and boots-clad bald alien friend**.
* Chacha Chaudhary’s mind works faster than [...]

Mumbai…
One sunday in December in one suburb of Mumbai…
A girl…
wakes up in her cosy bed in a colourful room..in one corner
of a busy household.
The sounds of a morning almost all gone…noon peeking
through the blinds and announcing its arrival bring her to
wakefulness.
And yet her mind is somewhere else…she chases behind it
and forces it back into her [...]

Call this shameless publicity but what the heck….we write in order to be read. And I have a sneaky suspicion all bloggers are like me….exhibitionists at heart. What am I on about? Why, my other blogs of course.
In the sidebar, fellow bloggers and readers, plizz note that there is a section titled ‘Also by IdeaSmith’. [...]