Education

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...

Sameer Gudhate Presents the Book Review of IX B: The Fragile Heart of an Achiever by Piyush Mahiskey

Some books don’t take you back to school. They take you back to a feeling. A tightness in the chest. A silence you learned to live with. IX B: The Fragile Heart of an Achiever did that to me — not by reminding me of my own classroom, but by pulling me into a memory I hadn’t connected to school life until now.I grew up in a co-ed environment. Boys, girls, shared benches, shared laughter, shared awk...

Sameer Gudhate Presents the Book Review of Over The Rainbow: India’s Queer Heroes by Aditya Tiwari

I didn’t open this book looking for courage.I opened it expecting information.What I found instead was a quiet lineage of bravery — lives lived when there were no safety nets, no hashtags, no reassuring headlines saying things will get better. Over The Rainbow: India’s Queer Heroes doesn’t rush at you with noise. It walks beside you, calmly, carrying stories that were never meant to be erased, onl...

Sameer Gudhate Presents the Book Review of The Sex Book: A Joyful Journey of Self-Discovery by Leeza

The first time I picked up The Sex Book: A Joyful Journey of Self-Discovery by Leeza Mangaldas, I felt like I was sneaking chocolate from the fridge at midnight — part thrill, part guilt, part curiosity. Growing up in India, even whispering the word “sex” was enough to earn raised eyebrows, let alone reading a book titled so boldly. But within the first few pages, I realized this wasn’t a scandalo...