I’ll tell you what I saw. I saw my neighbourhood, after goodness knows how long 🙂 🙂 After weeks of lockdown, which I obeyed by staying home, today I finally had a taste of freedom. Since mid-April, I’ve walked up and down and up and down and up and down …
…was the unexpected headline of an article I read in my paper this morning 🙂 Just take a look at this, won’t you? Front page news in the Hindustan Times, no less. And yes, obviously I read this article with a whole lot more enthusiasm than the usual political stuff. …
It’s actually quite rare to have a sad marathon story. And certainly nothing on the scale of what took place in China last weekend. I suppose x, y, or z just missing their PB (personal best), or someone just failing by a whisker to qualify for a major event is …
Last year, when we were just beginning to navigate the horrors and the scariness of Coronavirus, my guru in all things running, Dr. Rajat Chauhan, advocated the regular use of a respirometer to strengthen the lungs and improve one’s breathing capacity. I duly bought one, used it enthusiastically for a …
I have never, ever been so sad to finish a book of non-fiction. Many a time I have dreaded reaching the end of a novel, but this is a first for me – when I turned the final page of this amazing book about women runners, I felt a real …
This guest post from my friend Nicci Smith, a foreign correspondent in Taiwan, is poignant and quite moving. This is the photo Nicci shared: Yes, indeed, it is a fabulously OTT in-your-face Barbie Doll pink flower. But there is a back story, too. Let Nicci tell you, in her own …
Funnily enough, I did (and also, paradoxically, did not) beware the Ides a year ago today, when I went to run in Delhi’s Lodhi Gardens. I had arranged to meet one of my good running mates, Ripu Daman, for a run – something we had done dozens of times before, …
In her previous post from Singapore, my friend Melissa shared her runnings photos from Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve. Continuing with the wildlife theme, a couple of days ago, running along the river in central Singapore, look what she saw – otters, a whole family of them 🙂 The way Melissa …
My young friend Melissa Cheong is back in Singapore for the Chinese New Year hols, and despite all the family get togethers, she’s still finding time to head out and run. Melissa sent me photos from her leisurely dawn run in Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve, which I admit I’d never …
A couple of weeks ago I visited Bhopal for the first time, and was blown away by the “zoo”. I use the quotation marks advisedly, because Bhopal Zoo is not at all a zoo in the conventional sense of the word. It is actually a National Park within the city, …
