A heady whirlpool. A delicious vortex
Or an alluring Bermuda’s triangle
into which hearts mysteriously melt and merge
Dimples
21 Saturday Jan 2017
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Author Archives: dr sweetyshinde
The surgeon’sdecision
23 Wednesday Nov 2016
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experiment, patent, quack, revolution, sacrificial lamb, scapegoat, surgeon
“Doctor saab, my child got a bruise on his knee. It’s bleeding heavily. Help, please.”
“Hmm, blood is very precious. We cannot permit its loss,” said the #surgeon. Nobody was sure if he owned a medical degree. However, his ancestor had been a great surgeon once upon a time. He spent plenty of his earnings to ensure that the young surgeon’s face was splashed upon pamphlets and trumpeted through handouts as the upcoming Messiah.
The village people were #innocent, #trusting and #hopeful. So they trusted and hoped.
The story of my experiments with Truth
25 Tuesday Oct 2016
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childhood dilemmas, experiments with truth, gandhiji, Humor, M.K Gandhi, mindset, prejudice, school memories, teacher vs student, truth and dare
A school memory pops out of my amygdala.
Lil Sweety is in the 10th std. Unit test exam. Subject – English.
She receives a measly 0.5 marks for one particular 5 mark question. She anxiously goes through her whole answer and finds no fault with it. She approaches the teacher, proffers her answer sheet and politely enquires what went wrong with her answer.
The teacher peruses the answer once and jabs a triumphant thumb at the second sentence. “You wrote M.K Gandhi instead of Gandhiji.”
Sweety blinks in puzzlement and tries to establish her point. “Madam, M.K Gandhi is the same person as Gandhiji.”
“I know.” The teacher snaps. “But you cannot write M.K Gandhi. It’s insulting to the Father of the Nation.”
Sweety is even more perplexed. ”Why should he get insulted by his own name?”
“You wouldn’t understand. Don’t repeat the mistake next time.”
“Is there anything else wrong with my answer?”
“No.”
Finis. Sweety’s marks stay stubbornly steady at 0.5 out of 5.0
Needless to say, that is the end of her experiments with Truth. Since lil Sweety is not convinced by the teacher’s reasoning or reply, she decides that the best solution to this problem is to keep the entire M.K Gandhi chapter as optional. Not just for the Final exam, but Forever. 
P.S– It’s a true story from her childhood. Sweety is now grown up (relatively) but she remains as baffled as ever. What crime did she commit?
What would you do if you were lil Sweety? What would you do if you were the teacher?
Your grass is greener than of Brangelina , Hrithssane, Deppamber
25 Sunday Sep 2016
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beauty, betrayal, Brangelina, celebrity, fame, introspection, joy & peace, know your value, love & heartbreak, marriage & divorce, values
Rejoice. Count your blessings. Discover paradise.
The avalanche of celebrity breakups is a boon in disguise for us. Of course, it’s ghoulish to prey upon celebrity divorces. It’s perverse to spit into their crystal palace – or pee into their goldfish bowl. It’s demoniac to relish their ugly skeletons. It’s voyeuristic, it’s parasitic. It’s –
– cathartic. Liberating. Introspective. Epiphanic.
You see that millionaire Adonis with the killer dance moves & a billion drooling fans? Well, his wife is all smiles as she celebrates escape from his gilded cage.
See that gal whose taut globes are the envy of the globe; who has fame & wealth firmly scissored between her equally taut calves? Well, her husband is straining at the leash & frothing at the mouth.
Book review: Silent realities by Ranjan Kaul
18 Sunday Sep 2016
A cluster of 10 stories tilting between the real and unreal, with myriad characters in an ever changing multilayered society. The range captures the frailties, moods and impulses of human behavior.
That’s what the gist of the blurb says. I agree in part.
4 stories impressed me, namely Lallan, The Slap, The Nest and Touch. These should’ve been placed at the beginning of the collection to hook the readers, instead of inserting them midways and towards the end.
Lallan & The Nest have a parallel between the human-animal world that explores human psyche well and throws up believable, relatable characters. Slap & Touch have a mellow tone and an unhurried pace Continue reading
Impractical Dreamer: Sweety Shinde 