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Listen to Keith Jarrett or help dad change the tire?

Vishy KurugantiJuly 16, 20121 mins

After two years of Reva ownership, I faced my first flat tire on Saturday. Fortunately it was discovered in the garage so no inconvenience there. Sunday morning I headed downstairs to the parking area…

Does every living thing need to have some “use”?

Vishy KurugantiJune 24, 20121 mins

India’s largest banyan tree, Kolkata During tonight’s good night ritual with the kids, the following conversation with my 9-year old. S: Does a banyan tree have any fruits? Me: No. S: Does it have…

In that case I’ll buy a cheaper car

Vishy KurugantiJanuary 26, 20121 mins

A conversation between our 6-year old (A) and his mom. I was just a fly on the wall. A: When I grow up I’ll buy a Mercedes. MOM: Why Mercedes? A: Because its your favorite car. MOM: (gives him a…

What a laptop outage can teach us about life

Vishy KurugantiDecember 26, 20114 mins

Apple’s 1st line of Intel-powered (Core Duo) MacBooks When I turned my back on a corporate career and embarked upon a protracted stint as a full-time blogger, I knew I had to make some adjustments. I…

Swami Vivekananda on entrepreneurship and focus

Vishy KurugantiApril 14, 20111 mins

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other…

Our Return Ticket 16 Years Later

Vishy KurugantiFebruary 21, 20115 mins

[Editor’s Note: After an extended silence in the R2IProfiles category, I bring you an interview with a recently returned (to India) fellow blogger, Vasantha Gullapalli. Most of the answers below are…

Can you live so completely that there is only the active present now?

Vishy KurugantiJanuary 23, 20112 mins

From the chapter “A fundamental question” in Jiddu Krishnamurti’s The Awakening of Intelligence. This chapter was from a lecture delivered in Madras on Jan 12, 1968. The closing excerpt (reproduced…

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…

When something’s not easy to do, you are doing it wrong

Vishy KurugantiOctober 19, 20093 mins

It was early days for me at the University of Houston campus in the Fall of 1992. One of my initial starry-eyed memories was that of purchasing my first Coke can from a vending machine on my way back…

Asthma, Bangalore and me…

Vishy KurugantiAugust 29, 20085 mins

Asthma and I go back a long way. One cold winter in Bokaro, when I was 6 or 7, asthma came uninvited into my life. It’s only a slight exaggeration to say that it changed my life. Besides taking a lot…

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