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You know you are a long distance runner when…

Vishy KurugantiAugust 27, 20101 mins

5k and 10k are ‘short’ runs. Your weekly mileage is 25k and turns out to be a terrible week. You hit your ‘warm-up’ point at the 10km mark and hit your zone after 20km. You keep referring to your…

The Darndest Things You See in India – Part 4 (Park Signs)

Vishy KurugantiAugust 25, 20101 mins

Sign inside a Koramangala park. Quick! How many DO’s and how many DONT’s? Another park! Another sign! Easier on the eye. Too bad it’s still prohibition time! Additional commentary Park timings seem to…

Enough with the “we need better leaders” nonsense!

Vishy KurugantiAugust 23, 20103 mins

I posted the tweet (see below) after reading the 100th Independence Day tweet (from celebrity, non-celebrity and sundry) bemoaning the state of the nation and placing the blame squarely on the corrupt…

Natural Remedy for Late Stage Dengue – Raw Papaya Juice?

Vishy KurugantiAugust 19, 20103 mins

For the last 3-4 months, I’ve been reading about the many cases of dengue-related deaths in Bangalore. A colleague’s (S) daughter was also diagnosed with dengue – fortunately it turned out not to be…

Freedom from Inertia

Vishy KurugantiAugust 15, 20101 mins

Pic: courtesy shirtoid.com As a sovereign republic, India turned 63 today. Today also marks our second anniversary in India – after 16 years in America. To mark this occasion, I tweeted the following…

Don’t let your friends fly with Afrin

Vishy KurugantiAugust 14, 20102 mins

My inseparable flying companion for the past 12 years! [Jan 7, 2015 update: seven years after I wrote this post, a helpful commenter informs us that the technique described below is called the…

Why I’m proud to be a Hindu

Vishy KurugantiAugust 08, 20102 mins

Someday (way in the future) I wanted to write this post. The thoughts were clear in the head but there were several more interesting posts queued ahead in my WordPress Drafts folder. During my last…

India Calling US – Job Fairs in New Jersey and Santa Clara

Vishy KurugantiAugust 05, 20101 mins

Two years ago, at the early stage of my India job hunt, I was talking to an executive at a large technology firm. I had just finished telling him about my two prior attempts to move to Bangalore (in…

The Darndest Things you see in India – Part 3

Vishy KurugantiAugust 05, 20101 mins

Bhurka (abaya) beyond your imagination! ‘nuf said. Emblem of a Tier 1 Bangalore school. Lalbagh nursery has a mobile garden unit… Marketing collateral inside Lalbagh nurserymen’s office. Am…

The journey from one home to another (guest post)

Vishy KurugantiAugust 04, 20104 mins

[Editor’s Note: The 2nd post in the R2IProfiles category comes from my blogger friend and fellow Bangalore denizen “Divs”. She blogs with gusto at Baby Love…and looottts of it] I went to the US in Dec…

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