The Blog of Reflections

Of the unknown

Ganesh Dhamodkar — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 16:04:27 +0000

Nothing is helping. It rained this afternoon. The air has changed suddenly from hot and humid to cool – and romantic. I tried things – played hill racing, read all my timelines, news – ate the stuff I’d bought – sat in the balcony for a while. Everything is making it worse than better.

Na, it’s sure not that simple. It’s something bigger – that I’m afraid to grasp – something deep – something dark! I’ve stopped going to depths lately – all these hot and humid days! I would rather sit the evenings in the balcony, playing hill racing.

But it rained today. The weather has changed suddenly, and for whatever, the hill racing isn’t helping any this evening.

Tagged: evening, longing, Love, melancholy, rain, yearning

Just one evening…

Ganesh Dhamodkar — Fri, 31 May 2013 15:30:07 +0000

Just one evening – or perhaps another one. Is it too much to ask for maa'm?—
Ganesh Dhamodkar (@ganeshdhamodkar) May 31, 2013

Tagged: affection, evening, twitter

Impending gloom

Ganesh Dhamodkar — Mon, 27 May 2013 17:28:02 +0000

These are tough times. While things are going through their natural course, overall there is a gloom in a bigger sense. Days are respite – pass quickly at work. Evenings are scary. This can’t go forever. This shall end at some point – this way or that – and I’m stretching its limits.

Tagged: evenings, gloom, unforeseen

On the verge

Ganesh Dhamodkar — Thu, 23 May 2013 17:53:30 +0000

On the verge...

Tagged: Matheran, me, photography

Happy families are all alike

Ganesh Dhamodkar — Sat, 18 May 2013 12:03:47 +0000

Sometimes – as times like this – I think people watching Kuch Kuch Hota Hai at this hour in their closed houses must be the happiest persons. They will have some evening tea and then pass the evening leisurely. At night, they will watch some IPL match – till the last ball – and the presentation ceremony afterwards – and will sleep like there is on tomorrow. Happy families are all alike.

My twitter bio

Ganesh Dhamodkar — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 07:01:27 +0000

I, am, in, pieces, fallen, here, and there.

Tagged: life, pieces, twitter

The end of it all

Ganesh Dhamodkar — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 07:49:42 +0000

You put it down, and a sudden emptiness falls upon you.—
Ganesh Dhamodkar (@ganeshdhamodkar) December 15, 2012

Tagged: emptiness, status, tweet

This is how you chill

Ganesh Dhamodkar — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 13:09:47 +0000

A day when you leave home in the morning without taking your wallet. You also forget to take the access card that opens the doors at work. You need to ask someone to open the door each time you get up from your place. And they have locks for everything: parking, canteen, coffee/drinking water kiosk, etc. Even if to go toilet, you need to ask someone to open the door. You don’t even notice that you’ve forgotten the wallet until you pick up some snacks for breakfast. So kind of the shopman to allow credit. You somehow manage the day. Finally, you bike for home. You don’t remember exactly when you had filled petrol. You know that it’s on reserve. You devise a plan. Bike runs dry. You leave it at the nearest parking place. Fortunately, it’s within few meters. And you start walking. It’s your favorite hobby. Ekla chalo re… You start GPS (such a geek you are)! You have fun waking, as always. You get a call. One more reasons to live. You explain the other person how the ancient Indian mathematicians wrote big numbers, like value of pi up to 17 decimal, in shlokas. Your life is wonderful. You walk. You reach home. You no more care about the bike. You can even pick it in the morning while you go office tomorrow. It’s just 1.42 km away (geek!). You walk out and walk in opposite direction of where you had left the bike. You come at a street food place. You order for fried rice and check in on foursquare (geek). You start writing a blog while you wait for your order, and here it comes. This is how you chill your evening.

Tagged: evening, fun

I’m alive and well

Ganesh Dhamodkar — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 06:08:28 +0000

I must not hesitate writing mini-posts now, little updates to let people know I’m alive. I’m having very little access to my Live Writer; things may go yet worse, and the android app is not something a regular blogger should use, but better something than nothing.

So, the point is I am, amidst all the things, alive and doing well.

Tagged: status, Wordpress for Android

Ruins of those days

Ganesh Dhamodkar — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 05:06:31 +0000

This place where I was born. I just heard yesterday it’s sold at a huge price.

I spent 10 years of my childhood here. The two stumps you see in the photo below used to be huge trees of “peepal” and banyan. I used to climb on the banyan tree.

This gate, this free space behind it (may I call inside it), used to seem “grand” back then.

These ruins of my childhood… I know this town as it was some 20 years ago.

Tagged: Nandura, photography, ruins, urbanization