Go on! Challenge that bully!Vishy KurugantiFebruary 21, 20122 minsA friend and running fanatic (Partha) once told me a story about one of his friends (let’s call him Jake). Jake is one of those annoyingly gifted athletes — excellent at whatever sport he played…
Temper passion with wisdom, my sonVishy KurugantiFebruary 16, 20121 minsIn Sackett’s Land (first of the 17-volume Sackett series) Ivo Sackett (father of Barnabas Sackett) giving some sage advice to his son… “You will see many women, and often you will think yourself in…
How the West was Lost – Short VersionVishy KurugantiFebruary 08, 20122 minsI 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…
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…