Calling all Sanskrit PoetsVishy KurugantiMarch 09, 20121 minsQ: What happens when a British woman with a degree in Classics and Sanskrit from Oxford University moves to Bangalore? A: She falls in love with an Indian fashion designer and a Royal Enfield Bullet…
You know when your blog’s spam filter isn’t working when…Vishy KurugantiMarch 05, 20121 minsYou start seeing the following type of comments in your moderation queue: Your posts gives me motivation to keep on my intention to create a blog one day. thank you for all. Thanks, this is really…
Decoding a power-packed Facebook status updateVishy KurugantiMarch 05, 20121 minsAfter a long time, I came across a Facebook status update which deserves highlighting. Here’s the 45-word beauty sans PII: Watched Mamma Mia in SF today and loved it. It made me want to hit the dance…
Go on! Challenge that bully!Vishy KurugantiFebruary 21, 20122 minsA friend and running fanatic (Partha) once told me a story about one of his friends (let’s call him Jake). Jake is one of those annoyingly gifted athletes — excellent at whatever sport he played…
Temper passion with wisdom, my sonVishy KurugantiFebruary 16, 20121 minsIn Sackett’s Land (first of the 17-volume Sackett series) Ivo Sackett (father of Barnabas Sackett) giving some sage advice to his son… “You will see many women, and often you will think yourself in…
4 years of blogging!Vishy KurugantiFebruary 09, 20122 minsYup – 4 years! To celebrate my 4-year blogging anniversary, I migrated my WordPress-hosted wordpress.ulaar.com blog to ulaar.com. I’m sure it’s an event the blogosphere’s been looking forward to with…
How the West was Lost – Short VersionVishy KurugantiFebruary 08, 20122 minsI grew up on a diet of Wild West novels and a dominant American narrative that celebrated the victory of the white man against the native American Indian. It was always about how the West was “won…
For a few minutes less: running the Mumbai Marathon 2012Vishy KurugantiFebruary 07, 20125 minsThis is Part 2 of my Mumbai Marathon 2012 race report and continues from For a few minutes less: a race report from Mumbai Marathon 2012. The First 7k Somewhere in my pace calculations, I erroneously…
For a few minutes less: a race report from Mumbai Marathon 2012Vishy KurugantiFebruary 01, 20124 minsWriting a post-marathon race report is a bit like [insert-metaphor]. Write it too soon and it runs the risk of coming out shallow and half-baked, wait too long and it might never see the light of day…
Pankaj Advani on learning from failuresVishy KurugantiJanuary 30, 20121 minsAt a recent TEDxIIMB event, I listened and watched as the billiards and snooker prodigy Pankaj Advani walked us through his accomplishments. He lingered on a photo that displayed his living room…
