The Idea-smithy

Minaxi: A tale of 3 cities
I saw the movie last year and now a few days back again. I liked it. No, I didn’t like the movie, I like the thought it explored.
Minaxi was not a story being told. It was the story of how a story begins. How an image, a face can [...]

Jin zakhmon ko waqt bhar chala hai…tum kyon unhe jhede ja rahe ho?

A bad experience is punishment enough. Just so I remember…

Ideasmith, age 6

Dear Santa Claus,Will you bring me a present too? I am not a Christian. But I say prayers in English in school and I know about Jesus Christ and Moses. I read about them in the Bible stories book. When I go home, I pray in Hindi or Tamil or Sanskrit and I [...]

There are religions. There are stereotypes. And there’s all this about food.
As my current squeeze Abshishek Bachchan might go “There are two types of people in this world. Foodies and non-foodies.” I belong to the second type. And it might consist of only one person.
At least, I’ve never met anybody who has the same attitude [...]