The Idea-smithy

Mail Today carried a story today on women bloggers and the problems we face. Yours truly has been quoted alongside a number of promiment ladies on the blogosphere.
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Some of you may recognize the trolly character I’ve mentioned in the story. For the others, I found his comments [...]

These shoes belong to a media professional. She was hurrying to work two steps ahead of me on the railway bridge (if you don’t recognise the thread on the floor, you ain’t a true Mumbaiker!). But she stopped long enough to let me take a photograph.

Granted the lace-ups on the jeans are probably a little 80s [...]

I am not a shopaholic. I’m not, I’m not, I’m not!! And for those of you who gasped in shock/amazement/incredulity (or don’t follow my idea-tweets, here are some of the Confessions of a Shopaphobic:

I don’t hate spending money, it’s the dressing room trials that get me down!
I don’t hate toting shopping bags, but I do [...]

The difference between lust and desire
is the same one that differentiates annoyance from rage, irritation from wrath
All of them anger and yet…
the first is simply a dream,
a foggy outline of what the other could be
For lust after all can be satiated
and satiation signals completion
But desire can only be fulfilled
like your destiny is fulfilled
And can it [...]

Flush with the success of my earlier movie plan which turned out such great results, I decided to go one extra and spice up my next movie outing as well. So, I proposed ‘Kitsch is Kool’. The idea was to do something unusual with a touch of whackiness, all in the name of entertainment. I [...]

I read a book of short stories. A compilation of pieces by different people with little or no prior creative writing experience. The book had an introduction to each of them – a brief glossary of details, character sketches in a few lines. I also had a chance to meet one of the authors. I [...]

After a spate of Pudinhara-inducing movies like Valkyrie (heavy: good but seriously serious) and Dilli 6 (does this city produce anything palatable??), I decided I really needed something different. So underlining my pukka suburbanite status with Vodafone Tuesdays, I found myself in a multiplex late last night, watching Pink Panther 2.
The movie was just what the [...]