One person. Too many hobbies.
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Prashant Dhanke writes essays, invents games, composes songs, and occasionally builds small machines. An engineer by training, a humorist by accident — committing content since 2008.
Essays & Posts
Corporate absurdity, AI, fiction, cricket, life. The endings are load-bearing.
44 piecesSongs
Music from a parallel timeline.
9 tracksGames & Machines
Playable. Adult supervision advised.
2 playableArchive
Old blog smell, 18 years deep.
since 2008
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Lily Silly: the serious people version
A song universe where genius, romance, and mild embarrassment keep arriving in the same taxi.
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Latest Writing
The newest things first, regardless of whether they are respectable enough to be called work.
Caress: A Confession and a Game
In Dewas, finding a chess opponent was harder than the chess itself. So my brother and I fixed the game.
My Sweet Family
Refrigerator: Hi, my name is Calvin. This chap bought me three years ago. I have seen few things in life:...
Vagina Monologue
Younger Bro bought an expensive mobile against my pragmatic advice. As is often the case, big brother was...
Behavioural Inefficiencies
1. Here’s a puzzle with straightforward answer but many come up with incorrect solutions in real life: Im...
Start Here
The posts readers refuse to shut up about
New here? These three have survived the most scrutiny. Begin anywhere.
The Bribe
Kharagpur, a speech-controlled toy car, a ten-rupee note, and the kind of misunderstanding that deserves preservation.
How To Live
A practical guide to life, provided one accepts that bathing and philosophy have unresolved jurisdictional issues.
I Still Don't Know
A short story about hell, embarrassment, and the bureaucratic efficiency of terrible endings.
Line of the day
“The printer, as we know, was the original artificial intelligence. It also hated humanity, refused to explain itself, and worked only when threatened by a man in formal trousers.”— AI Can’t Be Stopped, But It Can Definitely Be Misled
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Songs & Small Machines
Music from a parallel timeline, and games that should have a responsible adult nearby.
Infinity and beyond
Chai Tea at Three Thirty — the song this post steeped into.
Big Banger with his poems and other art forms
Will You Be My Lily, While I Am Your Silly — the poem, promoted to song.
Caress
Chess pieces, carrom rules. Flick a bishop. Report back.
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