Naya Kya Hai?Vishy KurugantiJanuary 05, 20243 mins(For non-Hindi readers, Naya Kya Hai means “What’s New”) Let me start by telling you what is NOT new. It’s December-end (early-Jan) and I’m 4 ~2 weeks away from racing yet another Tata Mumbai Marathon…
Four years of Ekadasi fastingVishy KurugantiDecember 08, 20233 minsMy 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…
Techno-Optimists Reveal Latest ManifestoVishy KurugantiOctober 18, 20234 mins“The Future is Basically Awesome, and We’re Awesome Too” [Editor’s Note: The Onion doesn’t do tech satire. It’s easy to see why. But there comes a time when the juiciest of juicy stories hits (and…
The Talking RunnerVishy KurugantiAugust 13, 20234 mins“How long do you guys run?” “Oh! I don’t know.. we keep talking and running and we lose track of time.. at some point one of us feels it’s time to turn around and we do.” There I was, in the mid-90’s…
My mobility triple jump into RapidoVishy KurugantiApril 20, 20225 minsThis Good Friday I completed 5 months with Rapido and boy, have the days flown by or what? Barring a week, I have been regularly working out of the lovely physical office in Bellandur. Believe me…
Mysticism of Dream PopVishy KurugantiJanuary 23, 20224 mins(Before you read this post, could you please PLEASE listen to this 4 min track? Just to avoid narrative bias for the question I’ll be posing right at the end.) Developing an appreciation for a new…
Another day, another beginningVishy KurugantiJuly 04, 20211 minsEditor’s note: My friend Karthik, an avid hiker and a dilettante poet, composed this beauty while on a trek in Kedarkantha just before the pandemic dropped on the world. Another day, another…
Lockdownland – a documentary by BBC’s David ReidVishy KurugantiMay 24, 20201 minsI first met David Reid (one-man-army BBC documentary maker) in late 2014. A meeting that started off with a cold call to the mGaadi call center with “Hey, you guys seem to be transforming auto…
In defense of idol worshipVishy KurugantiMay 02, 20201 minsA source of controversy and a massive source of division between the major religions that believe in form/idol worship (Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism) and those for whom it is anathema (Christianity…
On suppression vs dissipation of desireVishy KurugantiApril 04, 20201 minsMy Jiddu Krishnamurti friend painstakingly reminds me that desire suppression is very different from desire dissipation. Between the two, the latter is desirable (pun intended) because suppression…
