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Arun Nehru and Lalit Suri

Vishy KurugantiOctober 31, 20151 mins

I thought I knew all the major players in the ‘organized’ 1984 Sikh riots. I was wrong. Hartosh Singh Bal’s Caravan article uncovered these two gentlemen – one a Gandhi extended family hawk, the other…

Aftermath of Delhi gangrape: a set of must-read articles and tweets

Vishy KurugantiDecember 28, 20122 mins

Barring onetwo, the rest of the curated articles should appeal to your head rather than your heart. Added For Anonymous after the girl’s death earlier today. The Problem is Us How to go from outrage…

Crime does not pay – a rebooting manifesto

Vishy KurugantiDecember 27, 20124 mins

It’s been over a week since a hapless young medical student was brutally gang-raped and mercilessly beaten to within a micro-inch of her life. In this glorious nation’s capital.. inside a moving…

Bengali Mumbaikar takes the long way home

Vishy KurugantiJuly 29, 20102 mins

Soumya Banerjee (my friend from University of Houston days) returned from Boston to India 10 years ago – a period which we can term the “first wave” of reverse brain drain. Very few of my Indian…

R2I Profiles – Launching a New Category

Vishy KurugantiJuly 11, 20101 mins

My WordPress dashboard stats tell me that a lot of organic traffic comes from folks searching for “nris returning to india” or “indians returning to bangalore”. When I started this blog in 2008, this…

The Three Bubbles Revisited

Vishy KurugantiMarch 27, 20102 mins

When I wrote The Three Bubbles back in Oct 2008, the perspective was biased around cushioning the India landing. Clearly the 3 bubbles represent a fairly minimalistic view of life. If one were to just…

The first week in Bangalore

Vishy KurugantiAugust 25, 20082 mins

“I want to go to Bangalore, Mommy”, declared Sanat three days after we reached Bangalore. He knew, of course, that we had reached Bangalore but what he was trying to say is that while he really…

First 3 days in India (Delhi & Bangalore)

Vishy KurugantiAugust 18, 20082 mins

Missed the Independence Day celebrations at the capital — by 10 hours Aug 15 The prodigal son returns to India on Independence Day exactly 16 years after he had left for America. Left on a Lufthansa…

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