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Sulking, Darwin Theory, Barbers and More…

Vishy KurugantiOctober 01, 20121 mins

(Google couldn’t help me with the right image for a sulky child. Best feline alternative courtesy catfacts101.com) It’s been ages since I posted the last kiddism. Lest our parental radar loses its…

Running with Padmapada

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 27, 20122 mins

In Walking on Fire, I wrote about breaching my first major barrier in barefoot running. The second inflection in my barefoot running adventures occurred on Jun 21. I call this my “Padmapada moment…

Walking on Fire

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 26, 20122 mins

If you’ve been following my blog regularly, you know that the trail around Kaikondrahalli Lake (one among a handful of Bangalore lakes undergoing rejuvenation) is my home course. As with most…

Kaikondrahalli – a runner’s lake in Bangalore

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 20, 20121 mins

Considering that I’ve run over 500km around the 1.9km loop of the Kaikondrahalli Lake (in the past 15 months), it’s about time I made a proper introduction. An introduction in pictures – from this…

Saigon and its women

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 20, 20121 mins

Saigon, 1961 (Pic courtesy Life/flickr.com) Saigon has a curious aspect. It is a rather shabby version of a French provincial city – say, Toulouse, as I remember it. Life proceeds normally and it has…

Return to India decision – in ONE tweet

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 19, 20121 mins

Pic: courtesy pecksandbushels.blogspot.com Yeah – Twitter is an addictive time-sink but it does offer a few redeeming moments. The tweet below is one such moment. The one tweet answer to… Should I…

Discs don’t slip suddenly. Really.

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 12, 20123 mins

Pic courtesy spineuniverse.com My friend Soumya (of Bengali Mumbaikar fame) posted a poem on Facebook. Alas! no happy poem since he was announcing that he had been diagnosed with a slipped disc. On…

Good Theft vs. Bad Theft

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 10, 20121 mins

After a flurry of recent high profile plagiarism case studies, a single graphic puts some important things in perspective. Pic: courtesy brainpickings.org If you thought this was interesting, then go…

Time to pitter patter: my first barefoot run

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 10, 20122 mins

It’s getting close to seven months since I switched to running barefoot. So far I’ve run 406km barefoot and a further 452km with huaraches over a total of 75-something barefoot running days. If you’ve…

Tribute to Dr. Verghese Kurien, Last of India’s Nation Builders

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 09, 20123 mins

[ Amul’s Tribute (of course) I spent the better part of my Sunday time skimming through tribute messages on Twitter, Facebook shares and reading what the mainstream media had to write about Dr…

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