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Barefooting in the snobbish sports

Vishy KurugantiDecember 03, 20193 mins

Golf and squash are uppity sports played by ‘gentlemen’. I say this despite being a squash aficionado. There’s one difference though. In one of the sports, you are guaranteed to sweat.. even if you…

Let the ass kicking begin…

Vishy KurugantiDecember 13, 20162 mins

It was my second year of playing squash seriously. ‘Seriously‘ doesn’t mean I was any good yet. I was at that rookie stage of a squasher’s evolution when I was constantly looking for easy winners…

Squash and the City

Vishy KurugantiApril 16, 20163 mins

Serious runners are crazy people. Serious squash players are no less crazy. The crazy squash player I am thinking about is my friend. Sanjay (now a Princeton, NJ resident) was my senior at BIT Mesra…

Bangalore to Hubli: from agony to ecstasy

Vishy KurugantiJuly 29, 20147 mins

[Editor’s Note: My good friend and ex-colleague Shriram undertook an amazing trip last year. Shriram is a cyclist and a runner. He belittles his running but he’s blessed with natural abilities. With…

James Gatlin – on competing with the fastest man in the world

Vishy KurugantiMay 13, 20121 mins

James Gatlin, after winning the 100m race at the Diamond League in Doha American sprinter James Gatlin, who’s just coming off a doping-induced ban, talks about competing with the fastest man in the…

The day Sarah Fitz-Gerald visited our squash club

Vishy KurugantiMarch 27, 20123 mins

Now how she looked in 2002 but what a killer she is on court! Gosh! It’s been at least 5 years since I last played squash. Not counting the 3 games I played at an off-site corporate event in 2009. I’m…

Lessons from Under the Banyan Tree

Vishy KurugantiMarch 16, 20124 mins

Pic: Courtesy Amazon.co.uk R.K. Narayan is my favorite Indian writer. I don’t know who is second on my list… in any case it’s not germane to this blog post. Under the Banyan Tree is a collection of…

That one perfect drive!

Vishy KurugantiAugust 22, 20115 mins

Following is an excerpt from PG Wodehouse’s A Mixed Threesome – one of many beautiful golf stories from The Golf Omnibus. The scene being described is that of the story’s protagonist (Mortimer Sturgis…

Offroading in Behrampur/Gurgaon – Selected Shorts from Jun 2008

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 21, 20091 mins

Pic: courtesy wikipedia.org A selection of videos from my offroading adventure with Pranshu Gupta (and his bad boy friends) in Behrampur – a hamlet on the outskirts of Gurgaon. Disclaimer: no animals…

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