The Idea-smithy

I’m just home from an amazing weekend. Actually it was only one evening but it packed in so much that it feels like I had an entire weekend.
My friend Reena got married yesterday to her longtime sweetheart Melroy. I met Reena through Adi and bonded with her at The Wall Project. If you visit the [...]

I’m back from my week-long break and I’ll write a more detailed post in due course of time. It’s been a week full of experiences (travelling to another place always is, isn’t it?). I still have to sort out my thoughts, shake the sand out of my shoes (yes, there was a beach too!), [...]

The Raja family took the flight out today. Uncle has retired so they’re moving to the house they bought in their native city awhile back, in anticipation of just such a time. They leave behind a spacious flat on the top floor of a building at the end of a leafy, shaded lane, a company flat in [...]

I wasn’t a cool kid. I wasn’t a hip teenager. I was perpetually confused, secretly angsty and with no Lakshya. I had no life. But I had a plan. A decade later I look back and wonder, How ever did things turn out so differently?!
Here’s how.
I dropped out of college for a year so ended up [...]

One of my landmark conversations with my boss started off with,
I have a plan.
He smiled and said,
I’m always glad to hear that. Let’s hear it.
And in that moment I knew he had assessed me (right) before I’d assessed myself and he liked what he saw. I like it too. I like being prepared, I like [...]

My body really is a wonderland. It celebrates 29 years of existance this week. And I’m still discovering new things I can do with it.
I don’t feel old. Or older. Or wiser.
All I am is happy, very happy. I’ve felt very loved and cherished this month. Thank you, world.
~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~
Almost every single present I received this [...]

I was burrowing through my closet the other day. Buried beneath the long-forgotten scarves and shawls and tee-shirts, I found an album.
Just before he left for his first trip back home to Delhi, he asked me,
What shall I get you from there?
And I said.
Yourself. Lots of yourself.
‘Lots’??
Yes. You with your family. Your school. College. Friends. Festive [...]