Sameer Gudhate

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The Practicing Mind by Thomas M. Sterner — A Conversation with Sameer Gudhate About Why Mastery Begi

The Practicing Mind — Are We Practising Patience, or Practising Impatience?We often say that we want to become better at something.A better writer. A better athlete. A better parent. A better professional. A better version of ourselves.But there is a part of the process we don’t talk about enough.The part where we are still bad at it.The part where improvement is so slow that we begin wondering wh...

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The Practicing Mind by Thomas M. Sterner — A Conversation with Sameer Gudhate About Why Mastery Begi
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Why Are We This Way? — Ami Ganatra Explores the Hindu Shastras, Sameer Gudhate Explores the Book

We have all been there.We know Ramayana. We know Mahabharata. We have heard the Gayatri Mantra. We have grown up hearing words like Vedas, Upanishads, Puranas, Smritis and Shastras. We visit temples, celebrate festivals, perform rituals and sometimes confidently discuss “our culture”.Then someone asks a very simple question: “But where does all this come from?”And suddenly, the confidence disappea...

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Why Are We This Way? — Ami Ganatra Explores the Hindu Shastras, Sameer Gudhate Explores the Book
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She Had Everything. So Why Did She Walk Away? — Sameer Gudhate on Leena Palav’s UnMoored

Imagine having the life that people spend years chasing. Two master’s degrees. A successful corporate career. A big house. A long marriage. Two children. Two dogs. Two cars. A beautiful yard. Parties. Comfort. Stability. From the outside, there is very little to complain about.Now imagine walking away from it.That is where Leena Palav’s UnMoored begins to become interesting.Because this is not rea...

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She Had Everything. So Why Did She Walk Away? — Sameer Gudhate on Leena Palav’s UnMoored
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When an Old Crime Refuses to Stay Buried — Sameer Gudhate Reviews An Uncaught Criminal by Rihan Khal

There is something deeply unsettling about a dead police officer hanging from a tree at a Delhi crossroads. Not just because it is murder, but because of who the victim is. A person who is supposed to represent the law has now become a message from someone who clearly has no respect for it.And then there is the symbol.The mark of Lady Justice on the dead officer’s neck.That is where Rihan Khalyani...

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When an Old Crime Refuses to Stay Buried — Sameer Gudhate Reviews An Uncaught Criminal by Rihan Khal
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When a Little Dinosaur Must Choose Between Fear and Courage — Sameer Gudhate Reviews The Brave Littl

A child’s first experience of courage is rarely dramatic. It is usually something much smaller: climbing a little higher, walking a little farther, trying something after being told not to, or facing a fear when there is no adult around to make the decision.That is the space Armaan Farid explores in The Brave Little Dinosaur Achoo.Achoo is bright, curious and mischievous. He loves running around, ...

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When a Little Dinosaur Must Choose Between Fear and Courage — Sameer Gudhate Reviews The Brave Littl
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What Does It Take to Keep Living? — Parts of Living by Sindhura Chamala, reviewed by Dr. Sameer Gudh

There are people who look lonely.And then there are people who have become so good at living alone that nobody thinks to ask if they are lonely.Meera is one of them.At fifty, she has a job. A routine. A home. A life that, from the outside, seems perfectly manageable.She wakes up. Goes to work. Comes back. Follows her routines.Nothing is falling apart.Except perhaps Meera herself.That is where Sind...

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What Does It Take to Keep Living? — Parts of Living by Sindhura Chamala, reviewed by Dr. Sameer Gudh
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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...

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

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When Love Opens a Door to Another World: Uneetaria by Sean Walker — A Review by Sameer Gudhate
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When Justice Failed, Fear Ruled: A Review of The Shadow of Evil by Jigs Ashar & Sarthak Dasgupta — B

There are crimes so brutal that they refuse to remain inside police files. They become part of a city’s memory. Parents whisper about them to protect their children. Entire neighbourhoods measure time by what happened before and after. The Shadow of Evil belongs to that unsettling category of true crime — not because it glorifies violence, but because it forces us to confront what happens when vio...

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When Justice Failed, Fear Ruled: A Review of The Shadow of Evil by Jigs Ashar & Sarthak Dasgupta — B
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The Bhagavad Gita Didn’t Change. The Conversation Around It Did.: A Review of The Gita for Gen Z: Cl

Every generation believes its struggles are unique.Maybe they are.Maybe they aren’t.Anxiety has a different name today. Overthinking has become a personality trait. Career pressure begins before adulthood. Social media has turned comparison into a daily habit. We carry entire conversations inside our heads long after they have ended.That is exactly where The Gita for Gen Z by Rania Sen begins.Not ...

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The Bhagavad Gita Didn’t Change. The Conversation Around It Did.: A Review of The Gita for Gen Z: Cl