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What motivates most amateur marathoners?

Vishy KurugantiApril 17, 20121 mins

Haruki Murakami, famous novelist and marathon runner, this question in his memoir What I talk about when I talk about running. Marathon runners well understand what I mean. We don’t really care…

Diplomacy 101 – blast from the 1961 Galbraith archives

Vishy KurugantiApril 12, 20121 mins

Pic: courtesy toonpool.com In Ambassador’s Journal, John Kenneth Galbraith shares a Diplomacy 101 aphorism (“don’t do anything”) in his February 18, 1961 journal entry. February 18-Washington…

John F Kennedy’s Presidential Desk

Vishy KurugantiApril 12, 20121 mins

Possibly the Presidential desk being referenced (Pic: courtesy masslive.com) In Ambassador’s Journal, John Kenneth Galbraith writes about the origins of JFK’s presidential desk in his February 1…

What kind of runner are you?

Vishy KurugantiApril 09, 20122 mins

Haruki Murakami On the way I passed a few other joggers, about an equal number of men and women. The energetic ones were zipping down the road, slicing through the air like they had robbers down their…

Errr… Could we stop the conversions please?

Vishy KurugantiApril 07, 20122 mins

This post has been in my Drafts folder for a whopping 20 months. I use ‘post’ loosely because when I picked it up today, it was just a collection of interesting story links and a provocative title…

When hard liquor was served at a White House party for the first time

Vishy KurugantiApril 06, 20121 mins

I recently started reading Ambassador’s Journal – John Kenneth Galbraith’s personal account of the Kennedy years. It’s a 500+ page heavy tome but my pal (@zenrainman) tells me why it should be a fun…

Born to Run (by Lynryd Skynryd)

Vishy KurugantiApril 05, 20122 mins

I’ve had Lynryd Skynryd’s The Last Rebel album in my music collection for years (maybe even decades). As I was listening to my “Rock” genre in random mode today and it started playing “Born to Run…

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…

Does mathematics make us boring dullards?

Vishy KurugantiMarch 23, 20121 mins

I stumbled upon an interesting blog today. The interestingness starts with the blog tag line and url: The Intelligent Woman’s Toyboy | The musings of an eccentric but not particularly intelligent…

Lessons from Under the Banyan Tree

Vishy KurugantiMarch 16, 20124 mins

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 short stories, arguably one…

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