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Preparations
Tha last few days have been exhausting. Not only the training I have been doing, but also planning the logistics. For training I started with around 15 kms a day, a week earlier. The next day was 35 km, 45km, 55km, consecutively. And most riding I have done is during the peak hours. Have learnt…
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Delhi to Nepal
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What is love?
I asked this to my friends. And now I am asking you, what do you consider as love? Love as happiness is an abstract noun. And like happiness what love means to each individual changes from person to person. Is it a extra flow of endorphins in the brain? Or is it what people compare…
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Google analytics – interface botch up
Google products are high on usability. It is really hard to find any logical blotches. So I have kept this with myself for a long time thinking I might have got the concept wrong somehow. I will give some background information for readers not aware of google analytics. It helps in keeping track of how…
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Body exertion and peace
Recent tryst with yoga taught me that peace of mind comes from stillness. To meditate, looking inwards brings takes you to newer planes of peace. Also according to at least some books I read, sweating is looked down upon. The sanyasi is advised to go to a solitary area where he is not disturbed, also…
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Mixed Language Type
Literacy has been growing in India quite fast in the last decade. And literacy or awareness of english has come to be associated with rapid progress. Spoken english courses have sprung up at every corner. What is more interesting is the decline of some aspects of hindi literacy. For example the number scripts in hindi:…
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Society and the Full Beard
Nowadays I sport a full beard. The kind so dense that I could smuggle gold coins in. So I get to hear this, a lot : Why are you growing a beard? To which I mostly answer, I am not growing it, it is growing by itself. I will dissect this innocent question and the…
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Rains in summer – Tehri Dam?
The monsoon is expected a week earlier this year. The newspapers and the tv channels did cover that. What they have not covered is why delhi has started getting rains during summer. I came to delhi in 2007, summers. The summer then was the real deal, hot, with ‘loo‘ blowing in the daytime. Riding a…
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