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I wanted to start my new year (you know when the clock strikes 12) with some writing. But I spent most of the last few hours of 2015 huddled in a chair reading and finishing the book Misery by Stephen King. So I let it be and pushed the writing part to the new day.I…
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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…
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I hate to make this a bullet list. But I love lists. So I’ll make one anyway. Bullets or no bullets.Wonderful work colleagues. I was working with a person double my age for the past 3 weeks. I am not including the age factor for a comparison but as a perspective. When I told him…
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When I told a friend few years ago, that I was in love with David Foster Wallace, he chuckled and was amused by my choice of literary heroes, given Wallace’s personal struggle. I had to convince him then, that I didn’t do this choosing consciously, its something that happens. Organic is the correct word to…
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Apart from my perfect world reasoning, I have figured out another reason to register for and run races. Change of scenery. Simple. Every day running in the same neighborhood, hunting for a new route to trod under your weathered running shoes starts to become a challenge. Within a couple of years once you start running.…
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These days I find myself making a lot of decisions of choosing between reacting or responding to a situation. I was surprised to find out, after so many years of trying to teach myself, that my default setting still is ‘choosing to react’. Since it is easier to react, makes life harder. And I used to…
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I joined the smart phone bandwagon pretty late. So-oh late that by the time I was on whatsapp everyone in my life, was already tired/bored of it and was seeking out ways to replace it with something else. But I guess that’s the ruse they used on me to finally get me on board. Like…
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Growing up in Nagpur, after father’s (baba) office on Fridays going to watch Amitabh Bachchan movies at a nearby theater was our definition of family outings. Baba is an AB fan. I also get my movies love from him. Watching movies was never considered as a frivolous thing in my household. Of course my book…
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I am wary of cliches. I love some of them, but some of them I really really dont like. And for some I have not made up my mind yet. ‘The world is small’ is one of those such things, which happens to other people. I always marvel at stories told by people around me…
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I no longer forget the year has changed. I have been putting the correct date on paper wherever required since Jan 1st. Although I am sure this is not a 30 effect. Its more of a becoming a person who is present here and now. The level of annoyance I used to experience when younger…