The Idea-smithy

It seems almost pathetic to call the sight of satellite dish antennae, scaffolding rods and TV aerials beautiful. But that’s what the skyline in Mumbai looks like. And even for a jaded, gritty city-zen, the freshness of that undefinable colour of light creeping up behind the buildings before the sun is mesmerizing.
And down below, in [...]

The thing about telling something to go to hell is that they want to take you along as a tourist guide. My last offer reads:
Free! One-way single ticket to hell!
Guide not included due to popular demand indicating that we stay back to arrange more such trips for others.
ENJOY!

It’s January and time for all of Mumbai’s iconic events. After the Mumbai Marathon and the Mumbai Festival comes the Strand Book sale. Book-lovers across the city have looked forward to this annual event far before the gleaming interiors of the other bookstores came into being.

While on this, here’s something that was written sometime back [...]

No one hears the sound of heartbreak because hearts don’t break.
They melt away, little by little,
In the fires of
Passion
Anger
Envy
Desire
Longing
………
and love.
Same difference. No one knows, no one cares.
So long as there’s enough left to keep your blood running and the fires burning.

Last week, I was told,

You should really get used to distinguishing your online and offline life!

And I wondered if I was spending too much time online. Only 8 hours+ at work. Some blogging on weekends. Who’s counting email? And now anyone in the world can see my chosen apparel for the day with Yahoo! Avatars. [...]

An odd figure made its way laboriously up the dirt path. Julia always was an odd picture, especially these years. She smiled to herself when she thought of how easily she had shifted to ‘these years’. The use of unconventional verbal constructions had always amused her. As a youngster, she would often end a sentence [...]