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A slice of uLaaR

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…

Eschewing meat- a few short stories

Eschewing meat- a few short stories

Vishy KurugantiAugust 02, 20202 mins

Until the start of the new millennium, my classification of people into “meat eating” vs “non-meat eating” was pretty static. If you were born vegetarian, you remained vegetarian (and vice versa…

MOMO Gormandizers Anonymous

MOMO Gormandizers Anonymous

Vishy KurugantiAugust 02, 20202 mins

*Momo: a type of steamed dumpling with some form of filling. Original traditional delicacy from Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan, Ladakh, Darjeeling, and Northeast – now mainstream Indian fare* I’ve heard some of…

Activating your inner AWACS

Activating your inner AWACS

Vishy KurugantiJanuary 16, 20201 mins

At some point one starts acting one’s age. I suppose. In the past year, I can’t recall how many times I’ve come close to yelling “For @#$%$#% sake, increase your goddamn immunity! And, for crying out…

The imperfect vegan

The imperfect vegan

Vishy KurugantiDecember 20, 20192 mins

When I turned vegan ~6 years ago, my conformance was slightly less than 100% initially. This was largely to keep domestic peace without compromising the core principle. For example, Palak paneer, a…

The coffee abstinence experiment

The coffee abstinence experiment

Vishy KurugantiDecember 01, 20193 mins

Regular readers of this blog might know that I run multiple experiments at any time. Experiments of the life hacking kind. Start doing this. Stop doing that. Well.. maybe more of the stopping kind…

Eating pork chops while petting your Golden Retriever

Eating pork chops while petting your Golden Retriever

Vishy KurugantiOctober 20, 20185 mins

Fifteen years ago, as we sat in a Singapore tour bus, we heard the story of how the Singapore zoo came to be. An entire generation of kids had grown up knowing chicken only as a packet of shrink…

Adventures in buffet optimization

Adventures in buffet optimization

Vishy KurugantiJune 10, 20187 mins

Mathematically speaking, a buffet function could be expressed thus: Buffet f(x) = sigma (dish1(a1 ->n1)) + sigma(dish2(a2->n2) +… + sigma(dish N(aN->nN) (Turns out there is a WordPress LaTeX plugin…

The Bengali outlier

The Bengali outlier

Vishy KurugantiJanuary 23, 20181 mins

What if I told you that I know a Bengali who doesn’t eat fish. In fact he doesn’t eat meat of *any* kind. Furthermore, he convinced his parents that they too should give up fish and meat. And they did…

A vegetarian cracks an egg

A vegetarian cracks an egg

Vishy KurugantiApril 28, 20173 mins

I was raised a vegetarian. Avoiding meat was the most natural thing for as long as I can remember in my childhood. During our teen years, eggs made a brief entrance into our lives. In the form of…

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