Shardul Mandrupkar's Blog

I never wanted to be something extra! I always dreamed to be an engineer! Even when I couldn't spell the word, for everyone who asked me this question, answer was engineer! And then one day, in school my English teacher asked me, how do you spell Engineer? And I kept mum! She shouted at me, and that hit me hard, I started to search for word "Engineer" But as I entered in the phase of being an engineer, I thought I never should've chosen engineering as a career. At that point of life, I already started to write and became quite popular in class 😜 It was always special being called writer but deep down I always knew, even if I chose to write, I cannot pursue it for a long time. And the same happened, I got placed into a Service based company as many of us in that phase do and started working as a trainee (Labour). And what people might have thought of me becoming something extra, that extra was getting supressed.  These was one of the hardest times when I

रात्री १२ वाजता Office मधून निघाल्यानंतर मनात एक प्रचंड काळोख निर्माण होतो, लख्ख उजेडातून मंद प्रकाशाच्या खोलीत अचानक गेल्यावर जस आपल्याला काहीच दिसत नाही ना अगदी तसा! आपण का करतोय एवढ काम? आणि काय मिळवतोय एवढ काम करून? पगार? पण पगार तर ९ तासाचा मिळतो! १४ तासाचा नाही !!! Gate मधून बाहेर गाडी पडल्यावर एवढ्या मध्यरात्री समोर असलेल traffic दिसल आणि मनातल्या अंधारात एक छोटी मिणमीणती पणती असल्याचा भास झाला... मी एकटाच नव्हतो एवढ्या रात्री घरी जाणारा! माझ्यासारखे अनेक होते की जे एवढ्या रात्री आपल दिवसाच काम संपवून घरी जात होते! मग प्रश्न पडला, ते बिचारे आहेत की मी? का दोघेही समदु:खी? खरच गरज असते का एवढ काम करायची? कॉलेज मध्ये असताना संध्याकाळी घरी जायचो, ती संध्याकाळ आता कुठे गेली? हरवली का ती? मनात फक्त हेच विचार चालू असतात आणि Flat वर पोचेपर्यंत मी पक्क ठरवतो की उद्या लवकर बाहेर पडायच, आणि संंध्याकाळी त्या रसगंगा मध्ये जाउन चहा प्यायचा! लवकर यायच तर मग लवकर जायला पाहीजे, लवकर उठलो, आवरून गेलो पण तुम्हाला माहीती आहे का? तो एक लूप आहे, रोज तिथे गेल्यावर brainwash होतोच आणि पुन्हा

I was silent, and they were looking at me like how can this boy be silent! For past few Weeks it was different and yes I made it so because I was feeling it that way. They asked me why you are lazy? Why coming to office so late? What is it? I just replied with a smile and left without any word spoken. You know, what I was thinking? "Seriously, do I really need to skip my sleep to wake up early go jogging and reach office early to work?" "The only good thing happening in my life was my sleep and today they made my difficult to sleep as well!" Somethings you need to say, you need to spend, and somethings you just need to carry till the end, these things are what making my life more miserable than it was earlier! Reading too many books, writing so many stories and being happy with what I earn even if it is small. But living a corporate lie is just being a burden which I have to carry and I want to carry because that path I choose for myself. It'

Cricket is emotion for us and that emotion changes as game progress! Everyone trying to plan the time out of daily schedule and watch the game. Let it be win or lose but emotion never changes. It was the same when we won 1983 or when we uplifted t20 trophy in 2007 and or you can take an example of our beloved 2011 CWC, It's all the same, isn't it? Waiting eagerly for toss, old days the work done by transistors and radios now a days cricbuzz doing its work. I dont even remember when I got more excited than a crucial cricket match. (Not even when I got my first job) Everybody will pay attention and then the toss happens. What India or opponent choose, makes impact on when people will be watching the game. As Indian we all have habit of watching or playing BAT first. And so we never truly give our 100% attention to ballers but even though we all check the score time to time. Then comes India's batting, hotstar ON, cricbuzz ON and all senses they are lost in cricket.