https://abhishekbagalkot.com/categories/stories/Recent content in Writings: Short Stories on Abhishek BagalkotHugoen-usTue, 25 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000https://abhishekbagalkot.com/posts/rainy-day/Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000https://abhishekbagalkot.com/posts/rainy-day/An evening walk in the rain, a cigarette and a coffee at a pan shop, and a sound from across the crossroad that the evening cannot absorb.https://abhishekbagalkot.com/posts/fixing-the-bike/Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000https://abhishekbagalkot.com/posts/fixing-the-bike/A day spent at a motorcycle garage, watching a mechanic who listens to engines and a friend who only talks — and working out why their friendship holds.https://abhishekbagalkot.com/posts/15-year-olds/Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000https://abhishekbagalkot.com/posts/15-year-olds/Arguing with a physics teacher about why light bends upward in a mirage, refusing to back down, and finding out years later what was actually going on.https://abhishekbagalkot.com/posts/physics/Mon, 18 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000https://abhishekbagalkot.com/posts/physics/The first thing I ever fell in love with — a question about the inverted image on the retina, and a year when Newton’s laws explained everything at once.https://abhishekbagalkot.com/posts/the-swim/Mon, 07 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000https://abhishekbagalkot.com/posts/the-swim/Why pushing your body to exhaustion lets you examine it clinically, and why the same detachment is impossible when it is your ego taking the beating.