IdeaSmith
@ideasmithy
Ideas are toys for a playful mind.
Reading a sweeping colonial saga and a quiet Tibetan memoir, I trace how language, history and the gaze of others shape identity. Book selection becomes a curatorial act to choose the lens that I live by, temporarily. @TseringNam15279 ramyapandyan.com/suitcase-of-po…
What is this garbage quality book cover for Amitav Ghosh’s ‘Sea of Poppies’? What makes it worse is the book is really good and the design is lovely. Too scared to breathe while reading as it’s warping and dog-earring on impact. Even the crochet sleeve isn’t helping. #Books
A chapter by Ruskin Bond, a conversation about celebrity spotting Jerry Pinto and what a nice person he is and a mug of lemon tea is a good start to rainy Monday morning.
Super trippy to be reading about the opium trade as a way of the East India company’s colonisation and seeing desi Hinge profiles that say yes to weed.
Any of you in Mumbai using dehumidifiers? Are they significantly helpful and worth the cost as well as loss of space in a small Mumbai home?
Here’s a thought. Instead of calling them world wars, call them The Colonisers Wars. No? Yeah the truth isn’t white.
For the first time in over a decade I’m too excited to sleep. Well the first time for this specific reason. Not to do with a man or a gift or an entertainment activity.
Just came across a “If all your bills were taken care of” question and realised that’s the map I need to plot out the rest of my life. Not because my bills are taken care of but because I’m now at the end of the life plan that was built around capitalism.
It’s time for rock music to make a resurgence. It’s been 25 years. There’s music beyond autotune, celeb merch and toxic fandoms.
Women ’s stories linger in kitchens & church pews. They carry the weight of funeral households, prayer rituals and unspoken female desire. ramyapandyan.com/flavours-of-wo…
I bought ‘Tibetan Suitcase’ by Tsering Namgyal Khortsa months ago at BookGarden (Vileparle East). Because Tanu gift-wrapped it so beautifully, I couldn’t bear to open it. I just did and found this note hidden inside. #Books
A male friend watched gleefully as I got harassed then said that I enjoy starting conflicts. He’s a good man and an awful human being. That’s how masculinity functions. Some of us need to be feminists to keep the world human.
Hours spent in the middle of the day asleep to recover from the social overload of the weekend. And now I can’t sleep.
“Why did you stay?” is the most vicious, monstrous thing to say to someone who tells you that their relationship was abusive. And if you’ve ever said this, may you face the blinding pain & endless betrayal of it yourself one day.
I don’t even know how to start thinking about brown people who are Zionists or white supremacy apologists.
No place like Bandra to remind you of the ugly exploitative side of capitalism. With an Instagram pretty facade, of course.