Roland Garros 2025 – A Reflection on Tennis and Flow Roland Garros 2025 June 9, 2025 Watched the epic French Open 2025 final yesterday night and was lucky to witness the beauty of tennis as well as sports on the whole. There was hardly much that separated both Jannik Sinner & Carlos Alcaraz, in the … Read more
Pahalgam Massacre | Shashi’s Verse Pahalgam Massacre Tuesday, 22nd April 2025 — A Black Day Of course people will look at it through their individuality, past experiences and their ideological leanings. They will talk about terrorism or religion or lack of safety or failure of intelligence or local and international politics or our neighbouring country’s … Read more
Rethinking Our Heroes: A Tribute to Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Rethinking Our Heroes: A Tribute to Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar By Shashikant Dudhgaonkar Every society celebrates its heroes—individuals who challenged the odds, rose above adversity, and left a lasting impact. In our diverse and complex countries, each community, state, or region has its own set of revered … Read more
Mindfulness – Being in the Moment Mindfulness – Being in the Moment Was watching a video of rainfall that I had shot in slow motion and I could see each individual drop almost floating down. And then a thought struck me. What if this could happen with all the beautiful moments of our life. Can … Read more
Tuesdays – A Humorous Reflection Tuesdays Tuesdays are unpredictable. Coming after Monday, which jolts one out of their ephemeral zone of peace and pushes them onto the weekly treadmill rudely, we expect a bit of relief. Or some slack, if nothing. Some even make provisions by not scheduling anything backbreaking or nerve-racking on that day. … Read more
Life flows smoothly despite its ups and downs. Office, home, children, shopping, bills to be paid, friends, travel, vacations, illnesses, political discussions, social media, and so on envelop us completely. We get so immersed in these routines that we somehow lose all awareness of the world beyond our constricted horizons. Everything seems to be going … Read more
As humans we are always expecting some sort of reactions to ourselves as a person and our actions. As babies we love attention and affection. When we are young, fear of being judged dominates. In midlife we look out for appreciation. And in old age………. Any reaction will do, just bring it on. ©️ShashikantDudhgaonkar
Wish you friends, A great evening of reflecting over the year gone by. May be nothing great happened or may be a lot happened in the days gone by. In the coming year, may be nothing won’t change. Except the calendar and how we write our dates on forms. Or may be a lot can … Read more
Words are important. For words create images in our minds and images create imagination. All human imagination is due to language. Without language there’s not much of an imagination. And imagination has been the main driver of human evolution and progress. And perversely this imagination leads many to question reality. Reality in the sense of … Read more
He is regular guy somewhere in his sixties. Rather a simple person without much layers or corners to him. At least as long as I have known him. Twenty years to be precise. Working in the same organisation where I worked a doctor. Though in a different department so we hardly saw each other. After … Read more