The Idea-smithy

I came to Bangalore over 10 years back. I was falling in love. Not with a person or even a place. I was really, completely, truly committing myself to life. I was 19. I had just weathered a tempestuous adolescence culminating in my dropping out of college. Then I licked my wounds, cleared my arrears [...]

It has been nearly a week now since The Wall Project and I’m so happy to say that it was a stupendous, tremendous, awesome success! I was thrilled to have been part of the event. The photographs are still surfacing on Facebook, people tagging each other and comparing notes.
Having put out an ‘official’ call on [...]

On the first week of June, Mumbai welcomed the monsoon of 2008. I watched it arrive, alone…which is probably the best way, with the rain.
The skies heralded the season of water.

And then I watched the drops paint the sidewalk a shiny, sheeny gloss of life.

Trrring…the alarm sounds
Time to get up and run
Smiled to myself while brushing my teeth
My 32 smooth creamy white pearls gleaming through the white froth
While the jingle of some toothpaste ad played the background score
To the bathroom drama
I’m racing…flying the kilometers to the station
While the minutes hand on my clock laboriously traces the millimeters to the [...]

A sense of rootlessness assails me
Here I am, two and a half decades old…and feeling every minute of it
Living charades every day
Juggling roles and discarding masks for newer ones
Doing everything right, hoping there’ll be an answer at the end.
Running, running, constantly running
To keep up with this carnival I’m a part of
Trying every ride because I [...]