Huh? How's that pronounced again?

आईडिया-शाईडिया -- that's how this blog's name is supposed to be pronounced. That's it, that's all this first post is about—how to pronounce the name of this blog. Irrespective of where you are in the world, there's probably a Hindi-speaker somewhere near you, so get them to tell you how to pronounce this :-).

This double-barreled name comes from the Punjabi habit of double-barreling just about anything, kind of making it more generic that what the specific word means. For example, while the word "idea" means what you understand it to mean—idea—"idea-shidea" kinda stands for idea/brainstorm/hypothesis etc., all in one go. Almost anything that even remotely resembles coherent thought can be an idea-shidea. Pretty neat, eh ;-)?