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Sameer Gudhate

The Toughest Battles in Shadows & Goals Are Never Played on the Football Field — Sameer Gudhate Refl

Every football match ends with a scoreline. Life rarely does. We remember the trophy, the missed penalty, the winning goal, but the conversations that never happened, the sacrifices made quietly at home, and the fears carried long after the stadium empties never find their way onto the scoreboard. That is the territory Devendra Garware chooses to explore in Shadows & Goals. Football gives the stor...

The Toughest Battles in Shadows & Goals Are Never Played on the Football Field — Sameer Gudhate Refl
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Beyond the Therapy Room: Sameer Gudhate on Kareena Mehta’s Letters from Your Therapist: On Love and

Some books arrive with arguments. Others arrive with answers. Letters from Your Therapist: On Love and Loss arrives with something far less common: permission. Permission to admit that grief does not always follow bereavement, that love can exist alongside resentment, and that healing is often less dramatic than the stories we tell about it. In a culture where emotional endurance is frequently mis...

Beyond the Therapy Room: Sameer Gudhate on Kareena Mehta’s Letters from Your Therapist: On Love and
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Sameer Gudhate Reflects on Danny Dawson’s Don’t Let Everything Affect You: Learning to Care Without

People often say they are “overthinking” when what they are really doing is conducting invisible investigations into ordinary moments. A delayed reply becomes evidence. A brief silence becomes a verdict. A neutral expression becomes a story. Somewhere along the way, the mind stops observing reality and begins prosecuting itself.That is the quiet territory Danny Dawson explores in Don’t Let Everyth...

Sameer Gudhate Reflects on Danny Dawson’s Don’t Let Everything Affect You: Learning to Care Without
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The Courage to Think Aloud: Sameer Gudhate on Kiaan’s Thus Spoke a Madman

There is a peculiar contradiction in the way we speak about mental health. We encourage people to “open up,” yet grow uneasy when they speak without filters. We celebrate vulnerability as long as it remains tidy, hopeful, and easily digestible. The moment pain becomes messy, obsessive, contradictory, or socially inconvenient, we instinctively step back. Kiaan’s Thus Spoke a Madman lives precisely ...

The Courage to Think Aloud: Sameer Gudhate on Kiaan’s Thus Spoke a Madman
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Sameer Gudhate on Weight Wars: When the Scale Measures More Than Weight

Weight is one of the few things society feels entitled to discuss without invitation. At family gatherings, in office corridors, at weddings, even in casual conversations between acquaintances, someone’s body often becomes public property. Advice arrives freely, concern disguises judgment, and humour sometimes carries a sting that lingers far longer than anyone intends. What begins as a conversati...

Sameer Gudhate on Weight Wars: When the Scale Measures More Than Weight
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Sameer Gudhate on Unshakable Confidence: When Life Pressed Reset — Lessons from Anand Modi’s Extraor

There is a particular kind of silence that arrives after reading about someone standing at the edge of everything they once were.I experienced that silence while reading Unshakable Confidence: The Anand Modi Story. Not because the book tries to shock the reader, but because it quietly forces you to confront a difficult question: Who are you when the life you built with your own hands suddenly disa...

Sameer Gudhate on Unshakable Confidence: When Life Pressed Reset — Lessons from Anand Modi’s Extraor
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Sameer Gudhate Reflects on Taking Charge: Living Beyond Diabetes: When Health Demands a New Beginnin

A few pages into Taking Charge: Living Beyond Diabetes, I found myself thinking about a small crack that once appeared on a wall in my office. At first, it seemed insignificant, easy to ignore. Months later, it had spread across the surface, impossible to overlook. Reading Abhishek Gaggneja’s story evoked that same feeling. Not because our circumstances were identical, but because life’s biggest t...

Sameer Gudhate Reflects on Taking Charge: Living Beyond Diabetes: When Health Demands a New Beginnin
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Daily write - Day 4

A hesitation for new startPalpitations in the heartDetermination being wavyDisappointment seems heavyIdeas and questionsTurmoils and confusionsHeadache and chest tighteningBreathlessness in the makingUnraveling the knotsFiguring out the plotsThe hardest part of it allAccepting broken pieces of the whole.

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Sameer Gudhate on Still Breathing: For Everyone Who Smiled Through Things They Could Never Explain

There is a moment somewhere around the first fifty pages of Still Breathing: Silence, Survival, and the Things We Never Told when I had to place the Kindle face down beside me and walk to the balcony for air. It was past midnight. Somewhere below, a scooter kept refusing to start, again and again, the sound echoing through the lane like frustration refusing to die quietly. I remember standing ther...

Sameer Gudhate on Still Breathing: For Everyone Who Smiled Through Things They Could Never Explain
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Sameer Gudhate Reviews Hope Takes Wings: Where Medicine Meets Emotion

Some books speak about healing.Some books quietly sit beside suffering without trying to decorate it.While reading Hope Takes Wings by GK. Balasubramani, I kept feeling as though I was walking through a hospital corridor at dawn — that strange hour when machines still beep softly, exhausted doctors hold paper cups of tea, and families stare at doors carrying equal amounts of faith and fear.Hospita...

Sameer Gudhate Reviews Hope Takes Wings: Where Medicine Meets Emotion