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Sameer Gudhate•

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...

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

From an Air Force Son to an Army Dreamer: My Review of The Curious and the Classified by General Man

Military institutions often appear distant to civilians. They never did to me. My father served in the Indian Air Force, and growing up, the Armed Forces were never just uniforms on Republic Day or headlines after a conflict — they were part of the conversations, values, and discipline that quietly shaped my childhood. I, too, dreamt of joining the Indian Army. Life took me elsewhere, but that cur...

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From an Air Force Son to an Army Dreamer: My Review of The Curious and the Classified by General Man
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The Covenant of Water

Often, when you read fiction, you’re eager to finish the book. You want to see how everything comes together and what the climax will be. But once in a while, you come across a novel you don’t want to end. You get completely engrossed in the world the author has created. You become invested in the lives of the characters and wish you could keep reading about them.The Covenant of Water by Abraham V...

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The Covenant of Water
Sameer Gudhate•

Maps Become Matters of Belief: Sameer Gudhate on Let There Be Light Upon the Universe — Beyond Maps

Every generation inherits maps. Some inherit them from explorers, some from scientists, and others from sacred texts. The real debate is rarely about geography. It is about authority. Whose description of reality do we trust when different worldviews claim to explain the same horizon?That question sits at the heart of Phanindra Narayan Gundu’s Let There Be Light Upon the Universe — Beyond Maps: Ex...

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Maps Become Matters of Belief: Sameer Gudhate on Let There Be Light Upon the Universe — Beyond Maps
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Sameer Gudhate Explores Let There Be Light Upon the Universe — Beyond Maps: Explore Earth’s Unseen L

Every age produces its own forbidden territories.Sometimes they are physical places. Sometimes they are ideas. More often, they are questions people are discouraged from asking.That tension sits at the heart of Let There Be Light Upon the Universe — Beyond Maps: Explore Earth’s Unseen Lands (Volume 1) by Phanindra Narayan Gundu. This is not merely a book about geography, cosmology, Antarctica, anc...

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Sameer Gudhate Explores Let There Be Light Upon the Universe — Beyond Maps: Explore Earth’s Unseen L
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Sameer Gudhate Explores Urmila: The Forgotten Sacrifice That Sustained a Legend

For every epic hero history remembers, there is usually another life standing just outside the spotlight. Not absent. Not insignificant. Simply overlooked.Few literary traditions illustrate this more clearly than the Ramayana. Generations have reflected on Rama’s duty, Sita’s endurance, and Lakshmana’s devotion. Yet one question lingers quietly in the background: what happens to the person who is ...

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Sameer Gudhate Explores Urmila: The Forgotten Sacrifice That Sustained a Legend
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A Soldier’s Greatest Battle Was Not on the Battlefield: Sameer Gudhate Reviews From Reveille to Retr

Most military defeats are analysed after they happen. Maps are redrawn, reports are written, blame is assigned. What is far rarer is discovering a man who predicted the defeat in advance, documented his concerns, and then watched those warnings disappear into bureaucratic silence.That unsettling reality sits at the heart of From Reveille to Retreat, the autobiography of Lieutenant General S. P. P....

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A Soldier’s Greatest Battle Was Not on the Battlefield: Sameer Gudhate Reviews From Reveille to Retr
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The Narrative Is the Weapon: Sameer Gudhate Reviews The Ultimate Goal by Vikram Sood

There is an old saying in journalism that the first casualty of war is truth. What Vikram Sood argues in The Ultimate Goal is far more unsettling: truth may not be the casualty at all — it may never have been invited to the battlefield in the first place.We live in an age where people can watch the same event and emerge with entirely different conclusions. A protest becomes a freedom movement for ...

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The Narrative Is the Weapon: Sameer Gudhate Reviews The Ultimate Goal by Vikram Sood
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Sameer Gudhate Presents the Book Review of The Tanishq Story: How Trust Changed the Way India Bought

There is an old habit in Indian households that rarely gets questioned. When a wedding is being planned, a festival approaches, or a daughter’s future is discussed, someone eventually says, “Let’s go to our jeweller.”Not a jewellery store. Not a brand.Our jeweller.The phrase carries generations of trust, familiarity, and inherited loyalty. It describes a relationship that survived economic upheava...

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Sameer Gudhate Presents the Book Review of The Tanishq Story: How Trust Changed the Way India Bought
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Sameer Gudhate on the Soldier Who Tried to Warn a Nation

There’s a moment in every Indian household connected to the armed forces when history stops being a chapter in a textbook and becomes deeply personal. Sometimes it arrives through an old photograph in uniform. Sometimes through a trunk filled with fading documents. Sometimes through the way a father falls silent when a war is mentioned on television.While reading From Reveille to Retreat by Lt. Ge...

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Sameer Gudhate on the Soldier Who Tried to Warn a Nation

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