• Blog posts
    • Spirituality
    • Constructive Criticism: Book reviews
    • Random musings of an eternal optimist
    • Mahabharata
    • Blogging ‘Eureka’ tips & ideas
    • World of Books & I
      • Book writing tips
    • Social Causes
    • Haiku
    • Blog Milestones
  • My novel – Arjun: Without A Doubt
  • Arjun – Anecdotes, free excerpt, quotes, reviews, journey memories
    • Arjun Anecdotes
    • Download Free Excerpt (pdf)
    • Arjun : Journey of my Novel
    • Quotes from Arjun:Without a Doubt
    • About Author
    • Book reviews for Arjun: Without a Doubt
  • My Pencil-sketches

Impractical Dreamer

~ Dr Sweety Shinde: As a butterfly flits; so does the mind waltz in innumerable flights. Mine hovers over books, spirituality ,humor and random gems from everyday life.

Impractical Dreamer

Tag Archives: Humor

The story of my experiments with Truth

25 Tuesday Oct 2016

Posted by dr sweetyshinde in Random Musings

≈ 36 Comments

Tags

childhood dilemmas, experiments with truth, gandhiji, Humor, M.K Gandhi, mindset, prejudice, school memories, teacher vs student, truth and dare

312312

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.

Bruce-lee-300x275

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. anonymous-black-bw-mask-reason-truth

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?

MK Gandhi

Book Review. Makeup & Breakup stories by Nihar Pradhan

05 Friday Jun 2015

Posted by dr sweetyshinde in Constructive Criticism: Book reviews, Debutante Authors

≈ 39 Comments

Tags

blogger, book review, breakup, characters, Emotions, fiction, Humor, makeup, modern technology, nihar pradhan, short stories

“Story telling is the best form of communication – It triggers imagination, stimulates inspiration and creates an impression.” Quotes author Nihar Pradhan .  nihar pradhan

Author: A renowned blogger at https://nrpin.wordpress.com  That apart, he is a consummate multi-tasker. His technical expertise takes shape as Digital Strategist and Process Innovator. His creative side emerges in blogging (Nature and nurturing ideas) and photography.

Theme: A collection of 40 stories depicting myriad characters in stages of evolution – either emotional, physical, professional or familial. Themes I could discern, include:

1] Humor : Nihar has a subtle humor, predominantly by twisting words. Examples, like ‘Today I have to serve them tea.  It’s not my cup of tea.’ and ‘He didn’t like the ringtone of his house bell. Not everything in life is to one’s favorite tune.’

2] Personification of inanimate objects : As seen in ‘Mirror’ (She reflected the entire gallery of my emotions) And in ‘The Lost Glory’ with the enigmatic Continue reading →

Trust, detachment and shoes.

31 Sunday May 2015

Posted by dr sweetyshinde in Random Musings, Spirituality

≈ 40 Comments

Tags

cynicism, detachment, faith, Humor, parody, shoe stealing, temples, trust

“Free yourself from attachment to material objects of pleasure. It is the key to Nirvana, to peace, to realization,” the orator’s voice boomed.

trust1

My mind was divorced from my ears. It stealthily flew to my brand new pair of shoes Continue reading →

Book review – Ravan & Eddie by Kiran Nagarkar

31 Tuesday Mar 2015

Posted by dr sweetyshinde in Constructive Criticism: Book reviews

≈ 10 Comments

Tags

book review, chawl, christian hindu, cuckold, customs, eddie, Humor, kiran nagarkar, ravan

Twitter review: Vibrant premise. Promising buildup. Crazy characters. Parallel worlds. Dry wit. Wet dreams. Anti-climactic climax.

ravan & eddie

Exciting setup: Ram is a product of soporific Shankar & voluptuous Parvati. A freak accident converts baby Ram into a murderer(!!), gets him newly coined as Ravan (to ward off the evil eye) and unwittingly links his life forever with Eddie, son of the ‘murdered’ Victor. Aha!

Quaint world, a far cry from kiran nagarkar Kiran Nagarkar’s ‘Cuckold’.

Parallel criss-cross lives: Ravan is coaxed towards Hinduism and Eddie towards Christianity. Instead, both rebel and trespass into other’s territory.

Ravan gets into Eklavya-mode and finds his tutor Dronacharya in a Taekwondo Continue reading →

In search of the perfect Jeans

02 Sunday Nov 2014

Posted by dr sweetyshinde in Random Musings

≈ 13 Comments

Tags

bizarre, denims, fashion, Humor, jeans, shopping, size, vaqueros

They cannot be inherited, unlike Genes. They are intensely personal and fiercely individual. The perfect pair of jeans – is almost nonexistent. I decided to venture forth on a shopping expedition for Los vaqueros aka Jeans aka Denims.  Continue reading →

← Older posts

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 1,474 other subscribers

Rage of the Maggots

Psychological Thriller/Short stories

3 lives. 3 moods. 3 novellas. Psycho Thriller/Medical drama

Arjun: Without a Doubt

Indian mythology novel

Silence, too, can be misquoted. Discover Arjun beyond the warrior extraordinaire (Indian Mythology)

Categories

Posts: Toppers & Winners!

Shyam chi Aai: Sane Guruji, Book Review
Book Cover Design – why, what, how?
Kartikeya: Arjun’s brother–in-law!

Follow me on Twitter

My Tweets

ArjunTheNovel

ArjunTheNovel

Goodreads

Oven-fresh posts!

  • Book review – Indra: the rise and fall of a Hero
  • Stuck
  • Irrationally Passionate by Jason Kothari

Blog Stats

  • 64,204 hits

Blogroll

  • Sunil Shinde Sketches Watercolors, Architecture, Urban sketching, Travel sketches, Seattle, India, Greece … Sunil Shinde Sketches Watercolors, Architecture, Urban sketching, Travel sketches, Seattle, India, Greece … 10

Add book to your Goodreads shelf

Arjun: Without a Doubt

I belong to IndiBlogger !


IndiBlogger - The Largest Indian Blogger Community

BlogAdda

Visit blogadda.com to discover Indian blogs
Follow Impractical Dreamer on WordPress.com

Hi there Visitor! Live Traffic

Insync with my wavelength

The Blog Farm

The Blog Farm

Click here to kick me higher on BlogAdda

http://www.blogadda.com/rate.php?blgid=50479

Tick, tick, tick

February 2023
M T W T F S S
 12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728  
« Jan    

Need a specific word?

Upcoming Events

No upcoming events

Visitor’s opinions

On max on Pregnant Nun and ‘Parth…
SYNERGIST on Social ostracism – Woe o…
dr sweetyshinde on Stuck
Ruchi on Stuck
SG on Stuck

Archives

Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com.

Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy
  • Follow Following
    • Impractical Dreamer
    • Join 456 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Impractical Dreamer
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...