The Idea-smithy

How do you tell someone
that you don’t care for them anymore?
I guess you don’t.

The Landmark bookstore opens its doors on 23rd January 2009. Landmark has been shut these past three months after a fire broke out in Infinity Mall where it is housed, causing much damage to merchandise and fittings. Mercifully no human casualties except of course for avid Landmarkers who’ve missed the store sorely all this while [...]

 
I decided to say yes
You wanted time to think; I think
to learn how to say no

I’m just back from BlogCamp. It was held at the Microsoft office in Kalina and sponsored by Ibibo.com.
Going by last year’s BlogCamp-part-of-Barcamp, I figured it would be a series of important sounding sessions about SEO and monetization and techie tips. Such a pleasant surprise it was for my techno-greeky (Technology is Greek, Greek, Greek to me!) [...]

What do you say about a twenty-five year old boy who died?
That he was never a boy. He was far beyond his years.
I had nothing much else to say but I had so much told to me today.
That he was an Arsenal fan and his family learnt to expect banged doors when they lost.
That his [...]

I got caught!!! *Huff Puff* I have never been able to run fast enough to avoid being tagged - in a game of tag or on the blogosphere!!  My spectacularly comic/tragic friend Greek Alphabet runs me to ground and holds me down till I promise to link to posts I like on the five key themes – family, [...]

Good morning and welcome to the first Monday of 2009!! Are you disgusted by my over-exuberant cheeriness? If you’re a Mumbaiker, I’m sure as hell that you are. The 5th of January feels like the 2nd and that’s disastrous as far as the workaholic attitude of this city goes. Three whole days later!!! Trains to [...]