Category: india


  • A twitter handle I follow was discussing privilege today, a concept I spend a lot of time thinking about. So its apt to write about a film festival from a point of view of privilege. Its a privilege, that I live in a world where films are accessible to enthusiasts and I got to attend…

  • I am not a traveler. I mean I travel in a literal sense a lot i.e. going from one place to other. But I am not much into elaborate vacation planning. I like exploring new places only on the condition that the place is there in front of me to be explored. I’ll not move…

  • My foolhardiness knows no bounds. Its always been like this. In school, I used to take up extra work, assignments because I loved studying. I would solve all types of extra problem books, study materials because I loved the challenge. As a runner, after having run 4 half marathons, I knew the drill of training…

  • I signed up for the Airtel Delhi half marathon 2 months ago (popularly known as #ADHM in running circles). I had been to Delhi earlier once and had liked the capital a lot! The race route went from Nehru Stadium, to Lodi Gardens to Rajpath (India Gate) to Parliament to Jantar Mantar and looped back…

  • Travelling to Kashmir has been one of my childhood dreams. It came true in an unexpected fashion last week.After the quite epic and never ending #anshitanukulkishaadi in Jammu, we headed to Kashmir. The wedding and kashmir culture merits a super long post of its own. And I think the beauty of kashmir and its description…

  • You start packing your stuff. You stumble across stuff you never knew existed. You label boxes. Make a note to use things that you still don’t want to throw away. You throw away some stuff willingly. With some stuff, you are just reluctant to let go. For eg. the beautiful glass bottles you collected to…

  • These are some really long notes about SCMM and running.Sometimes I think in my perfect world I would never register for races. Nor would I travel to different places just to be able to run in an organized fashion. Its not my perfect world, and hence for above reasons I take decisions from time to…

  • We are beginning to get on each others’ nerves. Polite discussions are now annoyed arguments. The Nagpur winter is colder and chilly. There are people sneezing all over at my place. And sometimes the warmth only seems to come from a cup of tea.There is a wedding at home.We are in a plush mall buying…

  • I can see this blog is slowly becoming a place to document running events. But as long as I keep on writing here, no one’s loss right ?The Satara Hill Marathon is an elite ultra marathon event in Maharashtra, which only in its 3rd year has already become famous for some superlative arrangements for runners and…

  • Prachi and Pooja are from middle class families. Well educated families. Pooja’s father did not want a daughter hence her mother took a stand and raised her by herself. Prachi, daughter of a principled man with anger issues, thinks its her father’s right to physically punish her for the sole reason that he let her…