Skip to content

The Idea-Smithy

Instagram Twitter RSS Linkedin YouTube
  • PODCAST
  • PROFILE
  • CONTACT
The Idea-Smithy
Linkedin Twitter Instagram RSS
  • PODCAST |
  • PROFILE |
  • CONTACT
  • City

    The Real Life In This Metro

    May 12, 2007March 8, 2023
    2 Comments

    I worked hard all week. Stayed out late with friends on a weeknight. Zombie-drifted through work the next day. Slipped up, picked up. Sulked, talked, missed, hit. Friday night I stayed in late, some out of guilt, some because I wasted an hour browsing online not feeling upto working and…

    Keep Reading The Real Life In This MetroContinue

  • 
  Toys and Boys
    Map Of Emotion | Politics & Feminism | Relationships

    Toys and Boys

    May 12, 2007March 8, 2023
    1 Comment

    The people we are by the toys we like

    Keep Reading Toys and BoysContinue

  • 
  Aphrodite
    Home & Identity | Map Of Emotion | Poetry

    Aphrodite

    May 9, 2007September 17, 2023
    5 Comments

    Aphrodite met me. What did she teach me about love or myself?

    Keep Reading AphroditeContinue

  • Politics & Feminism | Relationships

    Future Fathers – 2

    May 9, 2007March 8, 2023
    7 Comments

    Fatherhood seems to be the theme for this week, after my Electra-Oedipus discussion last week. After observing the behaviour of emperor penguins, I now discover that fish exhibit loving paternal behaviour as well. Today’s fact tells us that: “A father sea catfish keeps the eggs of his young in his…

    Keep Reading Future Fathers – 2Continue

  • 
  Life In The Fast Lane
    City

    Life In The Fast Lane

    May 8, 2007March 8, 2023
    3 Comments

    Mostly life in this city goes by in a blur and all that you remember of it is the numbers. The numbers really do a number on all of us.

    Keep Reading Life In The Fast LaneContinue

  • father
    Politics & Feminism | Relationships

    Future Fathers

    May 8, 2007March 8, 2023
    4 Comments

    My fact for the day tells me that: A father Emperor penguin withstands the Antarctic cold for 60 days or more to protect his eggs, which he keeps on his feet, covered with a feathered flap. During this entire time he doesn’t eat a thing. Most father penguins lose about…

    Keep Reading Future FathersContinue

  • 
  The Gateway To Mumbai
    City

    The Gateway To Mumbai

    May 6, 2007March 8, 2023
    4 Comments

    The gateway to Mumbai says, Come in, be yourself, make a home for yourself here and become a part of me. At least it used to. Before the anti-outsider sentiments, the religious fundamentalists and the terrorists made their presence felt. I wonder if the gate opens only to the West…

    Keep Reading The Gateway To MumbaiContinue

  • Home & Identity | Map Of Emotion

    The Alarm

    May 6, 2007November 11, 2023
    6 Comments

    Long time it’s been since I wanted to say I hate you. It’s a violent, mad-bad, insane feeling. And it’s good. The capacity to hate stems from the capacity to love. You don’t always wake up in the most pleasant way possible….more often than not, being jolted awake, startled…..like having…

    Keep Reading The AlarmContinue

  • 
  U-turns
    City

    U-turns

    May 3, 2007November 24, 2023
    5 Comments

    I keep taking U-turns in life. If you knew where you wanted to really go, maybe you wouldn’t have to turn back. Can you make a U-turn on reclaimed land? Would that be re-reclaimed territory then? On another note, this clean, non-congested road is in Mumbai. And yes, in one…

    Keep Reading U-turnsContinue

  • Fiction | Politics & Feminism | Relationships

    Electra and Oedipus in Love

    May 3, 2007March 8, 2023
    1 Comment

    Electra: Let’s run together, you and ILike we used to when we were kidsI know we didn’t know each other, growing upBut who says we ever had to grow up?Let’s play catch and hide-and-seek Oedipus: Hold me close, hold me at arm’s lengthBut stay beautiful alwaysA home to come home…

    Keep Reading Electra and Oedipus in LoveContinue

Page navigation

Previous PagePrevious 1 … 167 168 169 170 171 … 201 Next PageNext

Body & Sex Books City Digital World Fiction Home & Identity Map Of Emotion Poetry Politics & Feminism Pop Culture Relationships Roving I WorkSpace

Archives

December 2025
M T W T F S S
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
293031  
« Oct    

Comments

  • IdeaSmith on A Post-40 Primer On Friendship With Men: Hope & Betrayal: “@Soumya: Thank you for reading and commenting. Yes, I’ve had a good male role model. Unfortunately for me, I’ve encountered…”
  • IdeaSmith on Trusting My Judgement Again: Thanks Meena Kandasamy & The Rookie: “@krist0ph3r: ‘Judgement as mental shorthand’ is a great way to look at it. It’s narrow to think of judgementalism as…”
  • Soumya on A Post-40 Primer On Friendship With Men: Hope & Betrayal: “Hi Ramya, Firstly, my congratulations on a well written post. It didn’t pull its punches. Secondly, it was lovely to…”
  • krist0ph3r on Trusting My Judgement Again: Thanks Meena Kandasamy & The Rookie: “Wow, that was a lot to process and at some point it got too much for me to handle reading.…”
  • IdeaSmith on When Did Reading Become Performance?: “@Sid: Oh god, you’re right.”
  • Sid on When Did Reading Become Performance?: “I think the Poser Reader sentiment also comes from the branding reading as a hobby has had. Successful people say…”
  • Topher on Lit Crush: Gabrielle Zevin ‘s Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow, The Storied Life of A.J.Fikry: “I too struggle greatly with problematic people who make great things. As a child Bill Cosby brought YEARS of joy…”
  • IdeaSmith on A Non-Medical View Of The Uterus: Blood, Babies & Hysteria: “@XXfan: Yes, it appears to be a legal requirement for the hospital to show the removed parts to kin, probably…”
  • Xxfan on A Non-Medical View Of The Uterus: Blood, Babies & Hysteria: “I experience with hysterectomy made me more mature.my mom had to have a hysterectomy.this was my first experience handling everything…”
  • IdeaSmith on When Did Reading Become Performance?: “@Slogan Murugan: Indeed. Books were always fascinating but this year has been about the people and spaces around books as…”

© 2025 The Idea-Smithy - WordPress Theme by Kadence WP

Scroll to top
 

Loading Comments...
 

    Search