After sev­eral failed attempts at get­ting Air­tel (no ports), Sify (no con­nec­tiv­ity in my area), Hath­way (no response), I finally set­tled on Tata Wi-Max (VSNL) who got back to me very promptly say­ing they could give me a con­nec­tion. Sur­pris­ingly, the folks at TI were super effi­cient. Not only was my con­nec­tion okayed in a […]

I had done a nice long piece for Mint on run­ning and it’s increas­ing pop­u­lar­ity in Ban­ga­lore. It’s finally out: — Read it here — Another link This is a much edited ver­sion though to what I actu­ally wrote. But I guess that’s the haz­ard of writ­ing! I’ll prob­a­bly have to look else­where to get a […]

“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirro reflec­tion of what we are doing to our­selves and to each other.” — Gandhi It’s sad, it’s ter­ri­bly depress­ing and it’s out­right frus­trat­ing. One day, there’s a mas­sive tree tow­er­ing over the road pro­vid­ing much needed shade on the road. The […]

“The secret of stay­ing young is to live hon­estly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.” ~ Lucille Ball Thanks to every­one who called, mes­saged and mailed (and also left mes­sages on Face­book, Orkut, Twit­ter) yes­ter­day to wish me. Yes, I com­pleted yet another year! Arggh. Age seems to be in a hurry to take […]

On the Feb 16/17 week­end along with a gang of friends trav­elled to Pondicherry for the Auroville marathon. Auroville turned 40 on Feb 28 and this was one of the events to com­mem­o­rate the occa­sion. Though I must admit that I shuf­fled and walked through most of this one since I had fallen and knocked […]