Education

I Opened What the What?! by Nipun Jain & Mohit Mamoria for the Trivia, but Found Myself Thinking Abo

I have a confession.I like books that make me stop reading.Not because they are boring.Quite the opposite.Because sometimes I am reading a page and suddenly I have to look up and say,“Wait. What?”That happened quite a few times with What the What?!And, honestly, that is probably the best possible reaction to this book.I came to it expecting a book of strange facts, trivia and questions.I got that....

Why Immensa Book Club ?

I pick up my phone to check the time, but put it down say 22 minutes later. I had laughed twice, maybe, learnt nothing (usually), and still did not know what the time is.If you are reading this and smiling, then you have done it too.We keep saying the kids these days can't focus. Have you looked at us? The kids at least are honest about it. We adults have a list of genuine excuses to justify it, o...

The Practicing Mind by Thomas M. Sterner — A Conversation with Sameer Gudhate About Why Mastery Begi

The Practicing Mind — Are We Practising Patience, or Practising Impatience?We often say that we want to become better at something.A better writer. A better athlete. A better parent. A better professional. A better version of ourselves.But there is a part of the process we don’t talk about enough.The part where we are still bad at it.The part where improvement is so slow that we begin wondering wh...

Of same hue.

When l learn new things, its difficult to unnotice them around me.

History Isn’t Boring. We Just Tell It Poorly. | A Review of Rajesh Talwar’s The Incredible Indians:

Rajesh Talwar’s The Incredible Indians: The First Eleven begins with an interesting assumption: children do not need a shortage of heroes solved; they need better ways of meeting the heroes they already have. That distinction matters. We live in a time when young people can name global celebrities within seconds but often know national icons only through examination notes and commemorative speeche...

The Courage to Remain Unfinished: Sameer Gudhate on Always Becoming

There is a quiet assumption built into modern success stories: that one decisive moment changes everything. The promotion. The startup. The move abroad. The breakthrough. We love milestones because they give life a neat shape. Reality is rarely so accommodating. Most lives are altered not by dramatic turning points but by hundreds of small adjustments that only make sense in retrospect.That is the...

Sameer Gudhate Thought AI Was Confusing — Until He Fixed His Questions

There’s a quiet frustration most of us don’t admit out loud — the kind that shows up when you ask AI something simple, and the response comes back… almost right, but not quite. You tweak a word, try again, maybe blame the tool a little. And then one day, you stumble upon a book that gently flips the mirror toward you.That’s exactly what happened to me while reading Prompt Engineering Simplified: R...

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Sameer Gudhate Wonders: Are You Sure You Know Your Bharat? Think Again.

There was a moment, somewhere between two questions, when I stopped reading.Not because I was tired.But because I was… uncomfortable.Not the kind of discomfort a difficult book gives you.The quieter kind. The kind that makes you realise how much you thought you knew —and how much you actually don’t.That’s where The Viksit Bharat Quiz Book: Know Your Bharat, One Question at a Time! by Partha Sarthi...

Sameer Gudhate Asks: What If Passion Isn’t Enough?

There’s a certain kind of silence that comes after you hear advice repeated too many times.“Follow your passion.”It sounds good. It feels right. It almost has to be true.And then a book like So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport walks in — not loudly, not aggressively — but with the kind of calm certainty that makes you uncomfortable.Because it doesn’t just question that advice.It quietly d...