The Long Night and the Cycles of Change | Shashikant Dudhgaonkar Home › Essays › Reflections The Long Night and the Cycles of Change By Shashikant Dudhgaonkar · November 9, 2025 Everything is cyclical. What goes up must come down. Even good times don’t last. We wish the bad times would run out of sand, … Read more
Touched by Beauty of Small Gods Ten years twenty years Thirty forty fifty years Don’t know how long it has been Days are moving faster Then they had been Sometimes weeks pass Without knowing Keep losing track Of months and years Even with a display on mobile screen When I was four or five Roamed … Read more
Hope and Time There are no hopes Just a string of moments Waiting to arrive To pass away Into the dark From where they arrived For there’s no past, nor any future Just a thread, trembling in winds Of random events Struggling hard, to remain straight But coiling into knots On itself In the end … Read more
End Of The Day Once again, it’s evening time Like yesterday And a day before And many more yesterdays Thrown on the shore By the ruthless ocean Of what’s called time As darkness filters the light Choking it sweetly, till it dies Making it look beautiful almost serene Appearances do count Even for the Lord … Read more