uLaaR

My mobility triple jump into Rapido

Vishy KurugantiApril 20, 20225 mins

This Good Friday I completed 5 months with Rapido and boy, have the days flown by or what? Barring a week, I have been regularly working out of the lovely physical office in Bellandur. Believe me…

Mysticism of Dream Pop

Vishy KurugantiJanuary 23, 20225 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…

Running around in ovals

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 12, 20217 mins

“I can understand you running 22 marathons in 22 months. I can even understand you running the 75K. But running for 24 hours — I just don’t get it, boss!” My childhood buddy Dheeraj reacting to my…

Another day, another beginning

Vishy KurugantiJuly 04, 20211 mins

Editor’s note: My friend Karthik, an avid hiker and a dilettante poet, composed this beauty while on a trek in Kedarkantha just before the pandemic dropped on the world. Another day, another…

A 62 year memory

Vishy KurugantiJuly 03, 20213 mins

[Editor’s Note: My mother, a late adopter of the Internet, used to write the loveliest of letters to her children pre-Internet era. The letters stopped after I returned to India. In the past few years…

Coffeeholics Anonymous

Vishy KurugantiJune 26, 20212 mins

“After 2 years of a nocturnal heavy Masters program, I found it hard to stay awake beyond 10am at my new job so I turned to black coffee. Before I knew it, I was up to 5 a day and hooked.” “I can’t…

Coffee Struggles

Vishy KurugantiFebruary 21, 20214 mins

For a coffee addict (he does not like to be called an addict, the word has a disparaging sense, he feels that we might as well call each other milk addicts or food addicts or air addicts), the most…

Its time you told your mouth

Vishy KurugantiNovember 01, 20205 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…

A slice of uLaaR

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 24, 20204 mins

The blog turned 12 in Feb this year. Originally setup as ulaar.wordpress.com, I migrated to Wordpress-powered self-hosting on Dreamhost in 2010. A few premium Wordpress theme changes kept things…

You can only dilettante thrice

Vishy KurugantiAugust 16, 20204 mins

This 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…

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