The Idea-smithy

What a strange dream that was.
Do you ever wonder what your dreams mean? Of course you do, everyone does. There’s a whole genre of study devoted to understanding the interpretation of dreams – from the scientific, medical point of view as well as the esoteric, mystical side. One of the most succint opinions I’ve ever [...]

What do you say about a twenty-five year old boy who died?
That he was never a boy. He was far beyond his years.
I had nothing much else to say but I had so much told to me today.
That he was an Arsenal fan and his family learnt to expect banged doors when they lost.
That his [...]

(See version 1 here.
This is a modification after Kavita Bhanot’s workshop on fiction-writing)
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Julia labored up the dirt path, thinking, not for the first time, how long the years had been and how much had happened in them. Minute to minute, thunderstorm to typhoon, everything had kept changing. Of course, she admitted, the typhoon in those [...]

I met him through some common friends on the same day India won the 20/20 and the roads were thronged with pre-Ganesh Chaturti celebrators. Spirits were high, the jokes were flying and conversations happened easily. The next time I heard from him was a couple of days later asking if I’d like to join them [...]

I asked the Dreamcatcher if she had met Dream and she laughed and told me,
you shall be addicted
you shall not want to go out and meet people
you shall only want to sit and read sandman
my god if i could afford them, i would dance the dance of joy!
So if my words sound a little odd, [...]

Oh yes, everybody, we love the Island City. Not for its glittery Page 3 crowd, not for Bollywood, not for the stock markets and business hubs. We love it because it is a city of survivors, it is the city with a never-say-die attitude. Well, why not? That’s the only way to survive the mayhem [...]

Someone I know, passed away last week. Even my grammar hasn’t gotten used to it.
When I first heard he was ailing, my reaction was one of disbelief. A 40-something, MD of his own compact and rapidly growing organisation is supposed to be inside a boardroom or on the list of successful entreprenurs. He’s not supposed [...]