Relationships

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Prasanna Ratanjankar

Desire Never Left the Kitchen: How Laura Esquivel Rewrote the Rules of the Domestic Heroine

Those who know me are aware of my unhealthy obsession with anything Latin-American. I actively seek books, content, and movies emerging from that region. In fact, I started learning Spanish because I read an extremely passionate poem by Pablo Neruda in college and was, well, obsessed. Needless to say, my brain immediately associates passion with Spanish, and it isn’t without reason. After all, the...

Sameer Gudhate

Sameer Gudhate Presents the Book Review of I Cannot Say Goodbye to You by Rithvik Singh

Sometimes the hardest goodbye is not the one we say to another person. It is the goodbye we keep postponing inside ourselves.That is where I Cannot Say Goodbye to You finds its emotional strength.At first glance, the title can make you expect a familiar romance — love, separation, heartbreak, and the difficult business of moving on. But Rithvik Singh’s first romance novel reaches somewhere more un...

Sameer Gudhate Presents the Book Review of I Cannot Say Goodbye to You by Rithvik Singh
Sameer Gudhate

When Love Opens a Door to Another World: Uneetaria by Sean Walker — A Review by Sameer Gudhate

Sometimes love doesn’t just change two people.Sometimes it changes the world they are standing in.That is the intriguing idea at the centre of Sean Walker’s UNEETARIA, the first book in The Uneetaria Saga.Jalen and Amara begin with a connection.But theirs is not the kind of connection that ends with two people simply falling in love.Their bond opens a door.And behind that door is Uneetaria.A world...

When Love Opens a Door to Another World: Uneetaria by Sean Walker — A Review by Sameer Gudhate
Sameer Gudhate

When Goodbye Refuses to Be the End: Reflecting on Beyond Goodbye by Tanishka Chugera — A Literary Re

Grief changes the way we look at the world.After losing someone we love, even the smallest things begin to feel different. A butterfly crossing our path. A feather lying on the pavement. A dream so vivid that we wake up convinced we were with them again. Most of us have experienced moments like these, even if we’ve never spoken about them.Beyond Goodbye by Tanishka Chugera grows from that very hum...

When Goodbye Refuses to Be the End: Reflecting on Beyond Goodbye by Tanishka Chugera — A Literary Re
Pree Dew

The Embrace I Imagine

The night had grown quieter, but the wind hadn’t.A gentle breeze slipped through the small wooden balcony, nudging its loose railing against the wall with a soft, rhythmic knock. The sound echoed through the silence, almost like a heartbeat.Meera sat curled up in the corner of the balcony.Headphones rested over her ears, though the music had long faded into the background. A worn journal lay open ...

The Embrace I Imagine
Sameer Gudhate

We’ve Made Love Complicated. Radha — Part 1 Reminds Us It Never Was.

There is an odd contradiction in the way we speak about love today. We discuss relationships endlessly — through podcasts, Instagram reels, dating apps, and self-help books — yet the vocabulary itself has become strangely transactional. We ask whether love is healthy, sustainable, reciprocal, or compatible. Rarely do we ask what love actually is. Samar’s Radha — Part 1 begins precisely where moder...

We’ve Made Love Complicated. Radha — Part 1 Reminds Us It Never Was.
Sameer Gudhate

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
Sameer Gudhate

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
Sameer Gudhate

Million Dollar Habits by Brian Tracy — A Reflective Review by Sameer Gudhate

Many books about success promise transformation. Brian Tracy’s Million Dollar Habits makes a quieter promise: transformation begins long before results appear, hidden inside ordinary routines that most people never think twice about. It is less interested in dramatic breakthroughs than in the small decisions that eventually become identity.Tracy has spent decades writing about achievement, and rea...

Million Dollar Habits by Brian Tracy — A Reflective Review by Sameer Gudhate