I love writing.

That occurs to me as adequate introduction but curiosity being an insatiable creature, here’s more.

I first started writing online under the handle of IdeaSmith. The blog that I started then has grown today to what I call The Idea-smithy.

Because I may be a thinker, a writer and a poet but I’m first and foremost a woman and an opinionated one at that, The XX Factor finds a place in my world. I talk about relationships, gender stereotypes, feminism and its misinterpretations, men and every way they affect me and womanhood as I see it. Come talk about it with me, this blog is an open discussion board.

Brevity is a boon. I’m @ideasmithy on the Twitterverse.

I live in Mumbai, have all my life. The Island City is the keeper of my mundane secrets, the sieve of my shattered illusions and the incubator of all my grand(iose) plans. I love it; I loathe it. It is home. I am on Mumbai Metroblogging.

I’m straight. And I find it curiously interesting, the things people say and think about gay people. Some of my friends are gay, openly or closetted. And I am the straight voice of the Gaysi family.

I enjoy an occasional debate (okay, argument). Few questions have clear answers. I run my ideas through a critical forum at Desicritics. I am also a Desicritics editor.

I’ve been around the blogging community for a goodly while now. And justifiably or not, I’m a DesiPundit.

Subscribe to The Idea-smithy and The XX Factor in your feed-reader. Or catch me on the Twitterverse. Or all of it in one place.

I share bits and pieces of my life on this blog. I would love to hear what you’re thinking when you’re reading it.

If you have a picture of someone with unusual taste , send it to me and I’ll feature it on I Style!

Over to you…