The Idea-smithy

A few days earlier I had a thought. The words
Good karma, bad medicine
just formed themselves in my head. I can’t quite explain the thought. It was one of those ideas that just showed itself and vanished before I fully explore it further. It still sounded interesting. I put it up as my Twitter/ Facebook status [...]

I’m fascinated by Indian designs, motifs and art forms. Such vibrant colour! Such dazzling variety! I did a set of pieces called ‘Tandav’ using motifs and images from Indian dance forms. Sadly enough I didn’t think to take pictures back then and most of those garments have been worn out and discarded.
Kathakali (for the uninitiated) [...]

Here’s my NovelRace update, not one but two weeks later. After a ‘I do me proud’ start in the first fortnight, I slacked off for a week in between, making full use of my 30th birthday as an excuse. Pune and its wonderful people gave me a delightful celebration spread over 4 days (a birth-weekend [...]

I found this in a round of spring-cleaning, scribbled on a sheet of foolscap paper and dated 20 February 2002. This is from my character-building days as a back-bencher, doodling and scribbling away my time. All of us (at least the non-achiever types like me) had our own versions of ‘The Wall’; this one is [...]

This, she thought to herself, is uncomfortable. Bloody uncomfortable.
Like being pregnant and not able to deliver.
Or like being married to Prince Charming and not being able to make love to him.
*Groan*
Those lines might have been really good but sounded trashy. Only because…because…she gave up.
I have writer’s block even before I’ve become a writer!!!
…she spoke to [...]

I always imagined writer’s block would be about running out of things to write about. But the ideas are there.
They just don’t flow properly?
Yeah…you know how it feels like pen and paper or keyboard and screen are one with your body and that the blood in your veins is just flowing through your [...]