Shantesh Patil

It's been more than a year now since my grandma passed away and the difficult memories of those last days have slowly begun to give way to the happier ones.

I waited a long time before I started playing Stray post buying it.

When I was a quarter of the way into the game there were two things that stood out for me.

I waited for her to mess with her hair in the mirror.

A couple of years back I had played and been charmed by a little game called Far: Lone Sails.

📅 That was the year I was born.

Arcane I have never played the League of Legends game before: the universe in which this show is set.

I read a lot of books this year.

I am a consistent dreamer.

👍It’s very important for people to understand that when they make a positive change in their lives it doesn’t just affect them.

A man who was traveling came upon a farmer working in his field and asked him what the people in the next village were like.

Intro I was trying to make the most of a long weekend and because I hadn't done a trek for 2 years, I thought I would choose a modest hike.

I am sitting at the table of a rooftop restaurant that happens to overlook the train station.

I don't know at what point in my life watching sports became such an arduous activity.

A map of the general area around which these photos were taken Munsibhai Bidi Works, Pune Bidi is the local version of a cigarette.

Thank the stars someone at Sony decided that their prized franchise needed to see a new audience on the PC.

A beat-up van slowly makes its way along a beautiful road through a desolate landscape.

It was the year 1988 and I was three.

Sixty hours after I started playing Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, the game tells me that England is pacified.

While the original plan was to visit a couple of places in Kamshet we ended up spending most of the day at Bedse caves.

India is a land of many gods and many languages as well.

The 5th season of The Expanse made for an epic viewing experience in what I think is one of the finest space operas of our time.

Roguelike (or rogue-like) is a subgenre of role-playing video games characterized by a dungeon crawl through procedurally generated levels, turn-based gameplay, tile-based graphics, and permanent death of the player character.

I never paid much attention to game remakes, because I felt that it had become a prevailing trend among publishers to extract dollars from older properties.

Dreams are one of life’s most important biological phenomenon.

I first stumbled upon the work of Mario Miranda at the beautiful Reis Magos fort in Goa.

Journalist Rajat Ubhaykar’s book describing his journey to the extremes of India via trucks is one of the best books I read this year.

Even the most optimistic of optimists would agree it has been a terrible year.

I see so many videos of toddlers watching content on the TV or the phone.

This post might seem strange coming from the father of a kid who is barely two.

As the lockdown stretches on interminably I have tried to stay sane through all of this.

Tales From The Loop is an 8 part sci fi series based on the art books by artist Simon Stålenhag.

It’s been a strange and challenging time for all of us.

Sep 3rd, 2002 Dear Arpita, I know I keep asking you the same question, but doesn’t every mail start this way anyways?

Twenty years since I last came here.

She missed the motor pools, she shared on the way back from work, until just a decade ago.

I had heard a little bit about 1917.

One of the things I wanted to do in the new year was write a little bit about every game that I manage to complete this year.

I had stopped at signal at a place I don’t usually pass through.

I’m returning from a weekend trip out of the city.

Having Switzerland be the first destination outside the country that I went to was a scary proposition.

It was a strange world she was in.

The Office was one of those shows that I heard a lot of my colleagues talking about over the years, but one that I never got around to watching for one reason or the other.

When I visit a city for the first time, I always make sure to visit at least one museum.

Seadregor Mageblood.

While it might fall under the purview of invasion of privacy, I wish my phone could read my mind or at the very least understand my intent.

When Dark Season 1 first came out on Netflix in 2017 I was expecting it to be a slightly darker version of Stranger Things.

In the end, she was the only one, Because before her there were none, The first time I laid my eyes on her, Even the colour of her dress I failed to remember, Many days passed by and I heard nothing, Then she called and I knew there was something, As our…

The first time I became familiar with the Chernobyl incident was the year 2007, the much-anticipated game Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl came out.

Bandersnatch the interactive episode was the last Black Mirror content that was released before this season.