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My mobility triple jump into Rapido

My mobility triple jump into Rapido

April 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

Mysticism of Dream Pop

January 23, 20224 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

Running around in ovals

September 12, 20216 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

Another day, another beginning

July 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

A 62 year memory

July 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 [Remastered]

Coffeeholics Anonymous [Remastered]

June 26, 20213 mins

[Editor’s Note] I slightly cringe when reading my posts from a few years ago. The ones I wrote 10+ years ago are downright pain-inducing. If the code of the bloggers allowed it, I could delete them…

Coffee Struggles

Coffee Struggles

February 21, 20213 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

Its time you told your mouth

November 01, 20204 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

A slice of uLaaR

September 24, 20203 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

You can only dilettante thrice

August 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…