The Idea-smithy

Did you ever hear the call of memory
that screeching wail of nostalgia
like tires on tar
and you couldn’t help looking back,
wondering if anybody died
and realising it wasn’t you?
Did you turn back to proceed
and gape at the unfamiliarity of now
the past and its accidents seem so much real
and feel yourself lose footing on the road of reality
while [...]

Slumdog Millionaire is that rare combination of a strong plot and skilful storytelling that marries grit and glamour seamlessly.
You would think that a firang’s depiction of India would be all ‘exotic desh’…swollen-bellied babies starving outside the Taj Mahal and begging children. The movie does have hunger, poverty, slums, streetkids and beggars. Even the Taj Mahal. [...]

Yes, this one made me smile. Chuckle actually and even snigger a bit. But well, you gotta admire the guy’s guts (gall?), don’t you?
Who cares about making a statement on one’s tee-shirt? (remember those black tees with a humongous picture of the middle finger? Sooo unclassy, so un-I Style! ish). Move over animal-print underwear, here’s [...]

While my current job is not my first, it is the one that I consider the real start of my career. Since I joined, I’ve switched three places, teams and bosses these past three years. With each shift I’ve replicated the space around me.
First, my phone with its cord unknotted (I religiously unravel it every [...]

I was interviewed by BlogAdda.
It feels a little odd to blow my own trumpet, but hell if this was offline media, I’d have clipped and filed it away. :-p So here goes my first online media mention. And yes, I’m jumping up and down.

Friday* evening is when the city comes alive with a vengeance. As if it were sleeping the rest of the time. But Fridays are a frenzy of partying and drinking and laughing too loud. In a frantic attempt to drown out the panic of life running out faster than we can make sense of it.
One [...]

Here’s something I spotted in traffic last week.

While I’m wholly appreciative of the cool creativity it took to come up with this, I’m just curious – is license plate customization legal?