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Four years of Ekadasi fasting

Vishy KurugantiDecember 08, 20233 mins

My mother fasts and prays. My sister meditates. I run. 11 years ago, I began a post with this preamble. With a slight trepidation I can now update the 3rd sentence to “I run and fast.” Although my…

Coffeeholics Anonymous [Remastered]

Vishy KurugantiJune 26, 20213 mins

[Editor’s Note] I slightly cringe when reading my posts from a few years ago. The ones I wrote 10+ years ago are downright pain-inducing. If the code of the bloggers allowed it, I could delete them…

Coffee Struggles

Vishy KurugantiFebruary 21, 20213 mins

For a coffee addict (he does not like to be called an addict, the word has a disparaging sense, he feels that we might as well call each other milk addicts or food addicts or air addicts), the most…

A slice of uLaaR

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 24, 20203 mins

The blog turned 12 in Feb this year. Originally setup as ulaar.wordpress.com, I migrated to Wordpress-powered self-hosting on Dreamhost in 2010. A few premium Wordpress theme changes kept things…

Eschewing meat- a few short stories

Vishy KurugantiAugust 02, 20202 mins

Until the start of the new millennium, my classification of people into “meat eating” vs “non-meat eating” was pretty static. If you were born vegetarian, you remained vegetarian (and vice versa…

MOMO Gormandizers Anonymous

Vishy KurugantiAugust 02, 20202 mins

Momo: a type of steamed dumpling with some form of filling. Original traditional delicacy from Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan, Ladakh, Darjeeling, and Northeast – now mainstream Indian fare I’ve heard some of…

Activating your inner AWACS

Vishy KurugantiJanuary 16, 20201 mins

At some point one starts acting one’s age. I suppose. In the past year, I can’t recall how many times I’ve come close to yelling “For @#$%$#% sake, increase your goddamn immunity! And, for crying out…

The imperfect vegan

Vishy KurugantiDecember 20, 20191 mins

When I turned vegan ~6 years ago, my conformance was slightly less than 100% initially. This was largely to keep domestic peace without compromising the core principle. For example, Palak paneer, a…

The coffee abstinence experiment

Vishy KurugantiDecember 01, 20193 mins

Regular readers of this blog might know that I run multiple experiments at any time. Experiments of the life hacking kind. Start doing this. Stop doing that. Well.. maybe more of the stopping kind…

Eating pork chops while petting your Golden Retriever

Vishy KurugantiOctober 20, 20185 mins

Fifteen years ago, as we sat in a Singapore tour bus, we heard the story of how the Singapore zoo came to be. An entire generation of kids had grown up knowing chicken only as a packet of shrink…

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