Running & writing
A few weeks ago, I had ocassion to read ‘What I Talk About When I Talk About Running’ by Haruki Murakami. It is an autobiographical book about the author’s running efforts, which are praiseworthy. For someone who took up running to keep himself fit because he had a sedentary day job of writing, his results [...]
Empathy
On Sunday, I had occasion to go to the railway police station in Mumbai Central to file a FIR for a suitcase that was stolen from the train when I was coming back to Bombay after attending a friend’s marriage in Gujarat. This was the second visit, the first one being to the Dadar police [...]
Whats with the name?
A lot of people have asked me this question, and the question makes me think ‘why, really?’. The facile answer is that I live in Bombay, and being a not-so-politically-correct man, the name is semantically correct.
But is that enough to tie in with my identity to a city? If it is just about [...]
