Vedashree Khambete Sharma
Rage Against the Dying of the Light
Most people just go through life. They exist, and call it living. My father lived. He squeezed every bit of living from Life, drank it...
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Vedashree Khambete Sharma
- Feb 16
- 3 min
Has-Been / Yet-To-Be
I recently watched Kanan Gill's excellent stand-up special 'Is This It?' and it reminded me of this post I had written way back when. I'd...
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Vedashree Khambete Sharma
- Dec 27, 2023
- 3 min
Privilege And The Pursuit of Excellence
The past couple of months have been a bit difficult on the personal front. The total and complete lack of a November post should have...
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Vedashree Khambete Sharma
- Oct 17, 2023
- 3 min
The Adaptation of Suspect X
It's raining book adaptations in OTT land. From Vishal Bhardwaj turning Agatha Christie's The Sittaford Mystery into Charlie Chopra for...
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Vedashree Khambete Sharma
- Sep 26, 2023
- 3 min
Tomorrow, tomorrow and tomorrow...
In July, two days after my mother's birthday, my father was wheeled in for oral cancer surgery. It's the second one he's had and his time...
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Vedashree Khambete Sharma
- Aug 10, 2023
- 3 min
This Barbie Is Not Disappointed
I miss the days before the internet. I know, I know, this makes me sound as old as a black-and-white movie. But it's true. Before the...
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Vedashree Khambete Sharma
- Jun 9, 2023
- 3 min
Alive and Kicking... Kinda.
I'm so sorry! have been AWOL since March and boy do I... wait, did you guys even notice? Never mind, don't answer that. I had promised...
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Vedashree Khambete Sharma
- Mar 23, 2023
- 2 min
Authors Gonna Author
You know, when my first book released ten years - WAIT, TEN YEARS??? - ago, I had foolishly imagined a very glamorous author life. Book...
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Vedashree Khambete Sharma
- Feb 23, 2023
- 2 min
The Joy of Petty Curses
My mom does pranic healing. I would've ordinarily scoffed at this but hey, it has helped her find peace and equanamity through my dad's...
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Vedashree Khambete Sharma
- Jan 3, 2023
- 2 min
2023: This Too Shall Pass
It has been a minute, as the kids say, since my last post. And I was sorely tempted to do a year-end post like I usually do. But then I...
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Vedashree Khambete Sharma
- Oct 18, 2022
- 3 min
Bully For You
I've been thinking a lot about bullying. It started when I picked up Wonder by R. J. Palacio. Wonder is the story of a little boy, born...
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Vedashree Khambete Sharma
- Jul 22, 2022
- 3 min
Classified dangerous
When I was in high school, there was a sudden astrology epidemic among teenagers. Symptoms included asking people what their zodiac sign...
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Vedashree Khambete Sharma
- Jun 22, 2022
- 5 min
The Great Bollywood Biopic
I've been watching a lot of biopic-type movies these days. I came late to the '83 party, but managed to watch Gangubai Kathiawadi and the...
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Vedashree Khambete Sharma
- May 30, 2022
- 3 min
On Rejection
After a few years in advertising, I felt like if I had to find one quality among newcomers in the field that would tell me they have what...
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Vedashree Khambete Sharma
- Apr 18, 2022
- 2 min
The Right To Anger
One of these days, some scientist in some hidden laboratory will find a way to turn the latent anger in women into a power source. And...
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Vedashree Khambete Sharma
- Mar 31, 2022
- 4 min
Why Hans Christian Andersen, WHY?
I used to have a bunch of illustrated story books as a child. Each had a single story, often a fairy tale or children's story and since I...
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Vedashree Khambete Sharma
- Mar 8, 2022
- 3 min
I Am Woman, Let Me Be
It's that time of the year again, when brands start injecting the words 'she', 'her' and 'woman' to make truly heinous portmanteau words....
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Vedashree Khambete Sharma
- Feb 2, 2022
- 2 min
Move Over, Kitty
Growing up in the 80s and 90s in India was annoying for several reasons, but the one that got my goat was that it sucked being a girl....
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Vedashree Khambete Sharma
- Jan 12, 2022
- 2 min
A Flying Start
So after ending 2021 with a polite and not unreasonable wish that we all learn to be thankful for small mercies and enjoy every sandwich,...
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Vedashree Khambete Sharma
- Dec 28, 2021
- 2 min
Enjoy Every Sandwich
So, it's that time of the year once more - when we look back at the year gone by and wonder what the everloving fuck just happened. It's...
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