The Idea-smithy

IdeaSmith is a handle, a moniker and now it feels like an identity. I’m also called Ideasmithy in some places (in another lifetime, IdeaSmith stood for the person, the worker of ideas while the Idea-smithy was a place, the workshop of this chronic thinker).

Brevity is a boon. I’m @ideasmithy on the Twitterverse.

I am a woman. And some people think that it explains a lot. Come talk about it out with me at The XX Factor.

I live in Mumbai, have all my life. The Island City is the keeper of my mundane secrets, the sieve of my shattered illusions and the incubator of all my grand(iose) plans. I love it; I loathe it. It is home. I am on Mumbai Metroblogging. See what I see at Roving I, including the streetwear fashion images on I Style!

I’m straight. And I find it curiously interesting, the things people say and think about gay people. Some of my friends are gay, openly or closetted. And I am the straight voice of the Gaysi family.

I enjoy an occasional debate (okay, argument). Few questions have clear answers. I run my ideas through a critical forum at Desicritics. I am also a Desicritics editor.

I’ve been around the blogging community for a goodly while now. And justifiably or not, I’m a DesiPundit.

Subscribe to The Idea-smithy and The XX Factor in your feed-reader. Or catch me on the Twitterverse. Or all of it in one place.

I share bits and pieces of my life on this blog. I would love to hear what you’re thinking when you’re reading it.

If you have a picture of someone with unusual taste , send it to me and I’ll feature it on I Style!

Over to you…