Musings. Et Al.
Stories and Opinions by Amit Gawande
Howdy! I am a software developer living & working in Pune, India. I am currently a product architect at Infosys – also a casual blogger, an amateur writer and a technology enthusiast.
Selected Posts for You
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Book Review: Gone Girl
・2 minsDark, Psycho Thriller with neither Mystery nor Thrill. I started reading this book wanting, assuming, it to be a suspenseful thriller. I was unaware it is more of a sociopathic, twisted whine-fest. Some can call it a character study, narrative of flawed minds. For me, though, it is all whining. Sick. Sorry! First. You get thrilled only when you long for some character, root for the happenings surrounding their lives.
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Walking to the Happy Place
・2 minsOas looked at the grumpy old sod again lying down in front of Sara’s picture. Well, at least that is what he thought Mr Marvel was. Somewhere deep down he knew he too was exactly the same – an old grumpy looking sod. And Marvel had made sure Oas is never allowed to forget that. He saw a human reflection in the feline every time he looked at him. But as Sara had wished, Oas had made him his buddy, his partner for years now.
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Day When a Loan Shark Was Tamed
・8 minsThursday dawned on Tikwadi. For an outsider, no dawn in Tikwadi was any different. Villagers idled around just the way they always did. Men meandered, dilly-dallying with some unknown angst. Women hustled helter-skelter, pretending to be busy with some unknown chore. And kids spurted kooky from all directions, engulfed with some unknown euphoria. But for a resident of Tikwadi, every day dawned with a new crazy chapter. Even today, a group of men squat around a smallish bonfire.
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Book Review: The Oath of the Vayuputras
・2 minsTypical Trilogy. Starts well. Goes haywire. Falls flat. Such a letdown by the finale. Last third of the book completely ruined the build-up — which itself wasn’t too great. But this could have been so much better if the author did not fall for the pressure to jack up the number of pages — the effort, to stretch the story unnecessarily, clearly shows. It’s all about the impending war. Amish can write battles well.
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Perfecting Existence
・2 minsA sudden and repeated knock on the door reverberated through the room. It shook Rama, bringing her back from a sombre which had her unmoved for quite some time now. Unmoved, since a rock shattered her windows and her spirit. A rock with a paper wrapped around it. She had no clue for how long she had been staring at that piece of paper. The words it read were pretty conspicuous in imparting the intentions of the one who wrote them.
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