Sameer Gudhate

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Sameer Gudhate Presents the Book Review of The Parijat Tree and Other Stories by Sameer Nagarajan

There’s something quietly unsettling about a tree that watches you. Not in a mythical, larger-than-life way — but in the way an old house watches its inhabitants age, fracture, betray, and forgive. That was the feeling I carried through The Parijat Tree and Other Stories by Sameer Nagarajan — the sense that these stories are not merely told, they are observed. Closely. Patiently. Almost clinically...

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Sameer Gudhate Presents the Book Review of The Parijat Tree and Other Stories by Sameer Nagarajan
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Sameer Gudhate Presents the Book Review of LeanSpark by Jaideep Prabhu, Mukesh Sud, and Priyank Narayan

There’s a particular kind of confidence that comes from building something without excess. Not the loud confidence of billion-dollar funding rounds or glossy launch events — but the quiet certainty of knowing every screw, every line of code, every decision had to justify its existence.LeanSpark feels like that kind of confidence.I began reading it at a time when every startup headline seemed to sc...

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Sameer Gudhate Presents the Book Review of LeanSpark by Jaideep Prabhu, Mukesh Sud, and Priyank Narayan
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Sameer Gudhate Presents the Book Review of Musafir Café by Divya Prakash Dubey

Some love stories don’t explode. They simmer. And Musafir Café feels exactly like that — two cups of chai growing cold between conversations that were never fully finished.Divya Prakash Dubey places us gently into the lives of Sudha and Chander, two people introduced through the most traditional route possible — a parental matrimonial setup — only to find themselves questioning the very institutio...

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Sameer Gudhate Presents the Book Review of Musafir Café by Divya Prakash Dubey
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Sameer Gudhate Presents the Book Review of The United Nations Conspiracy by Sharath “Da Saint” Shivani

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” Shivani
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Sameer Gudhate Presents the Book Review of Kachri Kamble: Selfie That Rewrote Politics by Sandeep Sinha

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 Sinha
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Sameer Gudhate Presents the Book Review of Pune Junction by Pranay Bhalerao

Pune is the second city I’ve loved deeply, after Mumbai. I’ve been there countless times — often enough to know the older parts by instinct, to recognise the quiet charm of its lanes, and to slowly understand the language of its newer, faster edges too. If life ever asked me to move away from Mumbai, Pune would be the only city I’d agree to without a long internal argument. It has that rare qualit...

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Sameer Gudhate Presents the Book Review of Pune Junction by Pranay Bhalerao
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Sameer Gudhate Presents the Book Review of Aiyyo, What Will the Neighbours Say? by Aruna Nambiar

There’s a particular sound that echoes through Indian homes — a sharp intake of breath followed by a whispered, scandalised question: Aiyyo… what will the neighbours say? It’s not just a sentence. It’s a mood. A warning. Sometimes even a full-blown philosophy of life. I smiled the moment I opened Aruna Nambiar’s Aiyyo, What Will the Neighbours Say? because I knew, instinctively, that this book und...

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Sameer Gudhate Presents the Book Review of Aiyyo, What Will the Neighbours Say? by Aruna Nambiar
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Sameer Gudhate Presents the Book Review of Reminiscent Reticence by Dr. Infini Lionne

Sitting across a café table, the gentle hiss of the espresso machine in the background, I find myself thinking about how some books don’t just occupy a shelf — they quietly occupy a part of your mind. Reminiscent Reticence by Dr. Infini Lionne is one of those rare companions. From the moment I opened it, there was a hush, a subtle invitation to step inside the spaces we often avoid: the quiet corn...

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Sameer Gudhate Presents the Book Review of Reminiscent Reticence by Dr. Infini Lionne
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Sameer Gudhate Presents the Book Review of The Life That’s Waiting by Brianna Wiest

I didn’t open The Life That’s Waiting expecting to be moved. I opened it the way you open a window at dawn — carefully, unsure whether the air outside will soothe you or make the ache more obvious. Brianna Wiest has a way of meeting readers exactly there, in that fragile moment when holding it all together starts to feel heavier than falling apart. This book didn’t rush me forward. It sat beside m...

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Sameer Gudhate Presents the Book Review of The Life That’s Waiting by Brianna Wiest
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Sameer Gudhate Presents the Book Review of Stories of Courage by Sanjay Lazar

I opened Stories of Courage on a day when nothing dramatic was happening in my life — and that’s exactly why it unsettled me. No crisis. No breaking news. Just an ordinary day. Yet within a few pages, the ground under that ordinariness began to shift. Not violently. Gently. The way perspective changes when you overhear someone else’s truth on a bus or at a café table. You keep reading, but part of...

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Sameer Gudhate Presents the Book Review of Stories of Courage by Sanjay Lazar