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Its time you told your mouth

Vishy KurugantiNovember 01, 20204 mins

“I think you should change your name to Vic.” The recruiter had completed a quick scan of my resume and this was her first helpful suggestion. I smiled at her and said “My official name is Vishwanath…

The Indistructibles

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 03, 20162 mins

When I bought the Palm Pilot 5000, I could legitimately call myself one of the “early adopters”. I still remember the excitement with which I drove to the Circuit City (somewhere near Park Ridge…

Squash and the City

Vishy KurugantiApril 16, 20163 mins

Serious runners are crazy people. Serious squash players are no less crazy. The crazy squash player I am thinking about is my friend. Sanjay (now a Princeton, NJ resident) was my senior at BIT Mesra…

When I met a Mexican Vishy in a Texas Ghost Town

Vishy KurugantiOctober 14, 20132 mins

[Editor’s Note: On a musical day that started with Depeche Mode, moved on to Buena Vista Social Club, and continued with Omoro Portuondo and Getz/Gilberto in the evening, it wasn’t a surprise that I…

Errr… Could we stop the conversions please?

Vishy KurugantiApril 07, 20122 mins

This post has been in my Drafts folder for a whopping 20 months. I use ‘post’ loosely because when I picked it up today, it was just a collection of interesting story links and a provocative title…

How the West was Lost – Short Version

Vishy KurugantiFebruary 08, 20122 mins

I grew up on a diet of Wild West novels and a dominant American narrative that celebrated the victory of the white man against the native American Indian. It was always about how the West was “won…

The sandwiched generation. The best generation!

Vishy KurugantiJune 06, 20114 mins

[Editor’s Note: The author of this post, Rajat Mukherjee, lives in Silicon Valley and works for Google. This post originally appeared on his Silicon Thoughts blog and is reproduced here with his…

As I shuttled between Bangalore and San Francisco in 2010

Vishy KurugantiFebruary 05, 20113 mins

I saved this tweet from Nitin Pai (chief honcho and writer at The Indian National Interest) sometime in the first half of 2010. The operative phrase is “ought to”. The sad reality is that for most…

When something’s not easy to do, you are doing it wrong

Vishy KurugantiOctober 19, 20093 mins

It was early days for me at the University of Houston campus in the Fall of 1992. One of my initial starry-eyed memories was that of purchasing my first Coke can from a vending machine on my way back…

Memories of an American Life (Two Years in Houston)

Vishy KurugantiDecember 30, 20082 mins

University of Houston – Science & Engineering Building This is Part 2 of a 3-part series on my life in America spanning Houston, Chicago and SF Bay Area. Part 1 was Memories of an American Life (…

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