Father and Son | Shashikant Dudhgaonkar Home › Essays › Father and Son Father and Son It is a privilege to have parents. We know it but comprehend it in its entirety, a bit too late. Of all the relationships, a father and son relationship is never smooth and easy. Maybe for a few lucky … Read more
Thoughts of an Unyielding Mind | Poem by Shashikant Dudhgaonkar Home › Poetry › Thoughts of an Unyielding Mind Thoughts of an Unyielding Mind Sometimes, feel I need a break Streams of chaos, mundane, frivolity And of despicable acts Meet the bloodied cruelty Of mutilated children in bomb shelters Going hungry Of children abused and … Read more
Passing By | Poem by Shashikant Dudhgaonkar Home › Poems › Passing By Passing By By Shashikant Dudhgaonkar The summer street Stirs at dusk With pedestrians Young rambunctious crowd Talking whispering and laughing loud Some walking solo Glued to shiny screens A few zen monks Walked with measured steps Their AirPods drilling death metal Into … Read more
Sunset | A Poem by Shashikant Dudhgaonkar Home › Poetry › Sunset Sunset Sun pierced my eyes As I took a left Pulled the visor down Half blinded The fiery orange ball Will inevitably be swallowed Jaws of horizon closing around it For a tepid death It will rise again So have many influential men … Read more
Collective Denial | Poem by Shashikant Dudhgaonkar Home › Poems › Collective Denial Collective Denial They have always won Never ever lost Anything And convey that to the world Loudly, subtly, indirectly In person, at gatherings And on social media With a belief strong In their own deceit Deep inside their souls Tired, stretched thin … Read more
Bloom | Poem by Shashikant Dudhgaonkar Home › Poetry › Bloom Bloom Orange, yellow, red and grey flowers bloom in the towns one here, few more there many more they say downtown blossoms unheralded have arrived Birds dive from the clouds bees buzz and dart, night sky filled with falling stars spring has rushed in … Read more
अस्वस्थ | Shashikant Dudhgaonkar Home » Poems » अस्वस्थ अस्वस्थ आसपास आपल्या सारे आलबेल असते सकाळ दुपार सायंकाळ रात्र नेहमीप्रमाणे येते आणि जातेही घडत राहते बऱ्यापैकी सारे मनासारखे मात्र कोठेतरी दूर क्षितीजा पलिकडे ध्वस्त इमारती पेटलेल्या आगी आणि एकाच वेळी अकाली मारले गेलेल्या आत्म्यांचा धुमसत असतो धूर कोण चांगले कोण वाईट अनेक तज्ञ जोरजोरात खेकसत … Read more
Fabrications | A Poem by Shashikant Dudhgaonkar Home › Poetry › Fabrications Fabrications When everything around you Seems satisfying and serene You might be dreaming with open eyes Reality cruising alongside Invisibly If it’s pitch dark And terrifying You might have rightly Closed your eyes If it’s agonisingly harsh You might be an empath Suffering … Read more
In The Blink of an Eye | Movie Review | Shashikant Dudhgaonkar Home › Movie Reviews › In The Blink of an Eye In The Blink of an Eye Movie Review | By Shashikant Dudhgaonkar A beautiful movie that feels specially made for these turbulent and chaotic times, where no one knows where a war … Read more
What Is | A Poem by Shashikant Dudhgaonkar Home » Poems » What Is What Is Night speaks the language of silence And in its pregnant stillness Thoughts distilled to the purest Come to the fore The days suffocating rancour Loses its bite Emotions discarding their turbulence Start turning quiet Nothing is flat though Rather … Read more