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…
You can only dilettante thriceVishy KurugantiAugust 16, 20204 minsThis incredible urge to play a musical instrument or sing. Where the heck does it come from? I mean, how does one explain this urge when You are not born into a Bengali family When neither of your…
When does a streak become a habit?Vishy KurugantiJanuary 06, 20201 minsA conversation with a colleague years ago in Chicago. He: “Heard you started doing meditation?” Me (feeling rather smug): “Yeah. I took this class at Himalayan Institute 4 months ago and I continued…
A proposal in Lincoln Park, ChicagoVishy KurugantiMarch 13, 20173 minsI really don’t see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then…
The triple jump running plan for marathonersVishy KurugantiApril 18, 20133 minsThe triple jump, sometimes referred to as the hop, step and jump or the hop, skip and jump, is a track and field sport, similar to the long jump, but involving a “hop, bound and jump”: the competitor…
What kind of runner are you?Vishy KurugantiApril 09, 20122 minsHaruki Murakami On the way I passed a few other joggers, about an equal number of men and women. The energetic ones were zipping down the road, slicing through the air like they had robbers down their…
That one perfect drive!Vishy KurugantiAugust 22, 20115 minsFollowing is an excerpt from PG Wodehouse’s A Mixed Threesome – one of many beautiful golf stories from The Golf Omnibus. The scene being described is that of the story’s protagonist (Mortimer Sturgis…
Memories of an American Life (4 years in Chicago)Vishy KurugantiNovember 11, 20083 minsChicago’s Lake Shore Drive (between Diversey and Fullerton) I originally wanted to start a post called “Ten little things I miss about America” and then realized it should more on the lines of…
The social graph reacts to our moveVishy KurugantiSeptember 03, 200810 minsBack in July, in typical Kuruganti style, I sent an email to the vast majority of my social graph about our planned move to India. It was a rather painstaking process since there’s no easy way to pack…
Why did the Kurugantis immigrate to America?Vishy KurugantiJune 04, 20082 minsSometime in my 2nd year of engineering at BIT Mesra, I first dreamed of coming to America, getting trained as a computer scientist, doing cutting-edge research and becoming wildly famous – you know…
