The Idea-smithy

The currency we deal in defines our identity to the world…our calling card. Money wasn’t such a new idea after all, we’ve each been paying to be a part of society in our individual currencies.
Some people use charm like a personal wand of power and boy, are they rich…stinking, filthy rich with it! I use [...]

I found this in my mailbox today.
Last week I took my children to a restaurant. My six-year-old son asked if he could say grace. As we bowed our heads he said, “God is good. God is great. Thank You for the food, and I would even thank you more if Mom gets us ice cream [...]

Saying something three times or ten million doesn’t make it true.
Saying it very loudly doesn’t make it true either.

….doesn’t stop people from trying to make statements into fact however.
Maybe some people believe it if you say something many time or if you shout it out. But mostly I think people just get intimidated and want [...]

I took a trip across the city to a remote little corner of Mumbai’s unfashionable suburbs today. I loved the place the first time I saw it which was about 4 years ago now. A picture-postcard railway station, the kind you never see on the Mumbai Railway Line, with a quaint little ticket counter at [...]

A baby in an incubator.
Life determined to make its presence felt. How fragile we are…how much we need, how little we treasure it.
Alicia, open your eyes soon. The world is waiting for you.
And your generation to bring it back to life.
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*….sing a song for the broken-hearted…bang bang…tada da dummm*
Hey-llo?
Hey…wossup?
Can I call you back?
And if I say no?
I’ll slap you
Then why do you ask?
Ooof…I’m drowning in work
You’re a chalu cheez, you know that?
Oh gaawd…sorry sorry sorry. I’ll call you back. Please?
Okayyyyy……..
*Ring ring*
(What if I hit him with a “hey baby!”)
Call me back…I’m riding…
Oh?
(What if I say [...]