The Idea-smithy

Vineet was an ordinary young man with one remarkable talent that came to fore only in his late teens in college. It all started with an inter-collegiate festival.
His college and the hosting campus had a long running feud and the annual festival was both, a new episode in the war as well as a chance [...]

When the weather is dreary and my mood matches it, bright colours are the first thing I turn to, to cheer me up. Mumbai is normally sunny (barring those dull monsoon months) but the last few days have been a weird canvas of colourless insipidity. You can’t get too bright on a day like this.
I [...]

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 [...]

I was just about to give up on this section as I found it rapidly running out of options. What’s more, it has gotten a little tiresome to discover that even the wildest of us only show our individuality in our footwear!
Then, like a ray of neon, electric-strobe light, Sushant waltzed in. Let me introduce [...]

It’s amazing how rejuvenating it can be, simply to go back to one’s mundane, routine existence.
We complicate our lives in order to be entertained, never realising that entertainment is merely distraction but that thing called real life is so much better.
Fun doesn’t hold a candle to joy. And satisfaction is nowhere near contentment.