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Nehru’s pride, Indo-American relationship and the Indo-China war

Vishy KurugantiDecember 02, 20122 mins

Pic courtesy ibnlive.in.com Gurcharan Das, in his book India Unbound, makes a pithy statement. When individuals make blunders, it’s sad but when leaders make blunders, it’s a tragedy. He was referring…

How a hobby turned into a business – the Invisible Shoes story

Vishy KurugantiNovember 23, 20122 mins

Steven Sashen – eating (sorry ‘running’) his own dogfood Steven Sashen sent an email this morning to his loyal customer base announcing the third anniversary of Boulder-based Invisible Shoes. There’s…

Remembering 1984 Sikh Riots in Bokaro: The Police?

Vishy KurugantiNovember 22, 20121 mins

India’s famous top cop Julio Ribeiro wrote this Bal Thackeray opinion piece in DNA yesterday. Good revealing stuff about his interactions with the SS chief. The following paragraph stood out in bold…

My first barefoot trail marathon

Vishy KurugantiNovember 19, 20122 mins

On Sep 16, 2012, I ran my fourth consecutive Kaveri Trail Marathon (KTM) and my eleventh marathon overall. I finished in 4 hours 45 min — 30 minutes faster than my slowest KTM (2009) and 16 minutes…

My marathon discography

Vishy KurugantiNovember 12, 20121 mins

I completed my 12th marathon yesterday (and my 2nd Ultra). It finally made sense to create this discography post. #1 Silicon Valley Marathon (Oct 2002) – 4 hrs 32 min #2 Kaveri Trail Marathon (Sep…

Remembering 1984 Sikh Riots in Bokaro: Priti’s Story

Vishy KurugantiNovember 03, 20125 mins

[Personal Note: Over two years ago, I sent an email on our alumni mailing list desperately seeking answers on the ghastly and shameful 1984 Sikh riots in Bokaro. The tales started pouring in…

Remembering 1984 Sikh Riots in Bokaro: A Heroic Tale

Vishy KurugantiNovember 01, 20128 mins

[Personal Note: Yesterday was the 28th anniversary of the ghastly and shameful 1984 Sikh riots. Besides Delhi and Kanpur, Bokaro (where I spent the first 15 years of my life) was among the worst…

Remembering 1984 Sikh Riots in Bokaro: Jasbinder’s Tale

Vishy KurugantiNovember 01, 20124 mins

[Personal Note: Yesterday was the 28th anniversary of the ghastly and shameful 1984 Sikh riots. Besides Delhi and Kanpur, Bokaro (where I spent the first 15 years of my life) was among the worst…

Nineteen months of dumb living

Vishy KurugantiOctober 13, 20123 mins

One life. Do more. Err… how about “do less” and “have more fun doing it”? Nothing succeeds like success. Yeah. Sure. Would you like “whipped cream” with that? A new gadget that lasts only five minutes…

Chronicles of Barefootia

Vishy KurugantiOctober 01, 20121 mins

Chronicles of Barefootia Experiments with barefoot running – a brief (incomplete) chronology **************** It’s all a vast upper body conspiracy! Achieving terminal velocity Time to pitter patter…

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