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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 on The Tubewell House: The Mind Is the Real Tubewell House

There’s a certain kind of silence that doesn’t feel empty… it feels watchful.The kind you don’t notice at first.The kind that slowly begins to notice you.That’s the space I found myself in while reading The Tubewell House by Abhishek Chaudhary.At one level, it’s the story of Ashank Sinha — a man who has stepped away from the velocity of Mumbai’s financial world into the deceptive stillness of a vi...

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Sameer Gudhate on The Tubewell House: The Mind Is the Real Tubewell House
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Sameer Gudhate Reflects on Modi: The Master Problem Solver: Is Leadership Really About Timing?

Some books arrive with an opinion. This one arrives with a question — and then refuses to let you off the hook. Modi: The Master Problem Solver didn’t feel like a book I was “reading” as much as one I was sitting with, the way you sit with someone who keeps rearranging the furniture in your mind while speaking softly. You don’t notice the shift immediately. You notice it later, when familiar ideas...

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Sameer Gudhate Reflects on Modi: The Master Problem Solver: Is Leadership Really About Timing?
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Exploring the Depths of City Without Stars by Tim Baker A Review by Sameer Gudhate

There are cities that glitter at night. And then there are cities that swallow light whole.Reading City Without Stars by Tim Baker felt like walking through one of the latter — a place where hope doesn’t disappear dramatically; it erodes quietly, layer by layer, until even the sky feels complicit.Set in Ciudad Real, a fictionalised border town echoing the tragedies of Juárez, the novel drops us in...

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Exploring the Depths of City Without Stars by Tim Baker A Review by Sameer Gudhate
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Sameer Gudhate Presents the Book Review of The Shattered Empire by Atul Arjun Mohite

There is a particular kind of silence that follows the collapse of something once believed to be eternal. Not the thunder of war, but the quieter, more dangerous hush — the kind that settles into abandoned halls, unsettled bloodlines, and inherited guilt. In The Shattered Empire, Atul Arjun Mohite chooses to begin there. Not at the height of glory, but in the aftermath of certainty.The thousand-ye...

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Sameer Gudhate Presents the Book Review of The Shattered Empire by Atul Arjun Mohite
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Gita Press

I set out to study the enemy. And I found it deep within.Just kidding - a co-ordinated campaign to market a fundamentally different ideology and set of beliefs to people who neither asked for it nor wanted it. May offer some explanation of how we landed up in this quagmire. Of course the people take some blame for this - but just like Facebook meddling in places where they have no business meddlin...

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Sameer Gudhate Presents the Book Review of The United Nations Conspiracy by Sharath “Da Saint” Shiva

I opened The United Nations Conspiracy late at night with the casual confidence of someone who believes they control their reading habits. One chapter, maybe two, I told myself. Somewhere between the first disappearance and the first coded warning, I glanced at the clock. Ten minutes had passed. It felt like an hour. My cup of warm water went cold beside me, unnoticed, as New York City stopped bei...

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Sameer Gudhate Presents the Book Review of The United Nations Conspiracy by Sharath “Da Saint” Shiva
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Sameer Gudhate Presents the Book Review of Kachri Kamble: Selfie That Rewrote Politics by Sandeep Si

I keep thinking about how casually we take photographs now. A thumb tap. A half-smile. A moment frozen without intention. Kachri Kamble: Selfie That Rewrote Politics made me uneasy about that casualness. It reminded me that in the age of spectacle, innocence doesn’t need to be loud to be punished — it only needs to be visible.I read this book slowly, not because the narrative drags, but because it...

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Sameer Gudhate Presents the Book Review of Kachri Kamble: Selfie That Rewrote Politics by Sandeep Si
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Sameer Gudhate Presents the Book Review of Desiccated Land by David Lepeska

I remember closing this book one evening and realising the room around me felt louder than before. The fan hummed. A dog barked somewhere far away. And yet, after Desiccated Land, silence carried weight. This is not the silence of peace. It is the kind that lingers after you’ve heard too much truth at once and don’t know where to place it.David Lepeska comes to Kashmir not as a saviour, not as an ...

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Sameer Gudhate Presents the Book Review of Desiccated Land by David Lepeska

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