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The beauty and achievement of commercial aviation is lost on us. As if its just a walk in the park to put 300 people in a tube in some luxury, with some luggage and chuck it reliably through the air at 500 kph through no oxygen and no heat and yet arrive safely at your destination. A towering achievement of human ingenuity and desperation.

Sameer Gudhate on Why Love Feels Magical… But Isn’t Entirely Yours

There are some books you finish… and then quietly sit with, as if something inside you needs a moment to rearrange itself.A Brief History of Love did that to me.Not dramatically. Not in a way that announces itself. But in a slow, almost unsettling way — like realizing that something you’ve trusted your whole life might not be entirely yours.Because what if love… isn’t just yours?I went into this b...

Exploring Desire: Sameer Gudhate’s Review of Billion Wicked Thoughts by Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam

There’s a strange kind of intimacy in knowing what millions of strangers type into a search bar at 2:13 a.m.That was the thought circling my mind as I moved through Billion Wicked Thoughts by Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam. Not because the material is shocking — though parts of it are — but because it treats private curiosity like archaeological evidence. Keystrokes become fossils. Patterns become evolut...

Sameer Gudhate Presents the Book Review of Through Not Your Eyes by Kaushal Jalan

The first time Through Not Your Eyes made me pause, it wasn’t because of a grand idea. It was because I caught myself staring at my own reflection in a dark laptop screen, late at night, wondering — quite genuinely — whether the man looking back was the observer… or part of the observed. That, I realised, is exactly how this book works. It doesn’t shout revelations. It nudges you into quiet corner...

Grey Moon, Red Mars, and Green Earth - Chapter 4

It was the day off when Ravi came to meet Meera. They left in the morning and took an early train into the center of the lunar colony. The deeper layer had offices but the first two layers were filled with commercial shopping complexes. Meera had not yet received her first salary so she purchased only basic things she needed. Ravi was in the electronics shop for a while. They went to have brunch t...

Grey Moon, Red Mars, Green Earth - Chapter 3

Meera and Shruti walked up to the elevator and went up to the train station. They only “spoke” on an app that was local to the Moon. Ravi was a hosting the app on a server in his house. They left Discord looking at the number of surveillance software installations. But, running the scanning software had become second nature to Meera. Shruti pointed to her phone with her eyes. Meera looked around a...

Grey Moon, Red Mars, Green Earth - Chapter 2

Gafur was a tall neatly dressed man. It was not everyday that a man like him walked into Sarabhai Nagar. He walked to the bank of elevators marked 4 and went down to the twelfth level. He took out his phone from his pocket to look for the flat number of Anwar’s residence. He saw a girl hugging two other girls and a boy. She looked like an Earthling. He felt like the Earthling was a younger version...

Sameer Gudhate Presents the Book Review of Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

There’s something oddly satisfying about watching chaos simmer — in a test tube or a kitchen. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus captures that messy alchemy of life, science, and womanhood with a spark that refuses to be contained. It’s the kind of book that arrives wearing a lab coat but hides a rebellious smile underneath — equal parts thought experiment and emotional explosion.Bonnie Garmus,...

Grey Moon, Red Mars, Green Earth - Chapter 1

Meera sat in the seat next to the porthole through which she could look outside the rocket. Everything was grey. The body of the rocket was grey, the back of the seat on which the entertainment display was mounted was grey, the body of the rocket was grey, and the Moon ahead was grey. She was also not entirely certain what she was going to do once she was on the Moon. She just knew she wanted to g...