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As someone who is influenced by movies, books, or sportspeople. I have multiple personality switches, phases, alter egos or give it whatever term that you would tag. I have noticed these phases that I am in and what alter ego that wakes up. Whenever a certain alter ego of mine wakes up I think ofContinue reading “My Personality Switches/Alter Egos”

It has been two months since I watched Top Gun: Maverick and four years since I watched the first part for the first time. After watching both those movies my obsession with those two movies has regrown like a seed germinating into a plant. An 11-year-old Chinmay had watched Top Gun for the first timeContinue reading “Top Gun: A Teen Boy’s Dream”

What did you do over the weekend? A question some teachers ask and I wonder what have I done, I must’ve done something considering the fact that I can’t sit in one place doing absolutely nothing. A long weekend this week and I assume that the teachers on Tuesday will ask this question, a thoughtContinue reading “My Ideal Weekend”

As a writer with a published novel and writing another one. I have realized what gets me into the zone of writing a novel and it is not just one certain thing. It is an entire environment that helps me and energizes me to write. I don’t want to sound as if I have theContinue reading “My Environment While Writing”

It had been two long years since my friends and I met. When the world went online, the non-virtual interaction faded away. Then one fine day our friend Rudraksh left the school and shifted to Bangalore. Cut to two years later, the second week of the month of July 2022, my friend Rudraksh surprises meContinue reading “The Last 21 Hours: With Best Friends”

20th April 2022. I woke up early and excited as always. For the past 2 years, I was unable to celebrate my birthday because of the pandemic and I was missing out on celebrating with friends. I decided to bring a cake to school and cut it and enjoy it with friends. The whole dayContinue reading “My 15th Birthday!”

When someone asks you, Which was one of the earliest universities globally? Answers will probably be Oxford or Cambridge maybe? Probably some university in the European subcontinent? But what if someone tells you that the oldest educational institution in the world was established long before universities like Oxford or Cambridge came into place? In AncientContinue reading “Ancient University of Takshashila”

Dear Readers! This 2022, Stories, You & Me has decided to change itself and revolve itself as ‘Untold India: India’s Untold Stories For You’. What drove me into creating this was the fact that others and I should know about India, my country, my culture. There are beautiful stories that are unheard of about myContinue reading “New Blog Series: Untold India”

Book trailer of The Last 21 Hours: http://Book trailer of The Last 21 Hours: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AulIzxezix4 Order the copy on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Last-21-Hours-Bullet-Shook-ebook/dp/B09QPZR14N/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1E759VNZ34EE3&keywords=the+last+21+hours+chinmay+patgaonkar&qid=1643453847&sprefix=the+last+21+%2Caps%2C363&sr=8-1 The Last 21 Hours: A Bullet That Shook The White House, is a nail-biting, fast-paced thriller that shows the Vice-President taking over the presidency after the brutal assassination of a sitting president. To findContinue reading “My Book: The Last 21 Hours”

Hello Readers! Since the IPL has ended and the T20 World Cup has begun, I have resumed my obsession with the sport cricket. I thought that I must write something related to cricket and I thought of talking about my favorite cricketers that made me love the sport even more. Watching all these cricketing legendsContinue reading “My Favorite Cricketers”