We as a species have managed to beat the deadliest of disease, explore other planets, and even find a way to create babies in a test tube. And yet we still haven’t found the answer to some very simple problems: baldness, for one. Missing socks in a washing machine. Or who let the dogs out!?… Continue reading Advice for Men: Asian Age Column
Category: Philosophy, Merde, et cetera
This is a collection of my running columns that have appeared in MW magazine, India’s leading men’s lifestyle publication. All reviews were based on first-hand trials (10kms for swimming, 200kms for cycling, and 100kms for running) and nothing is paid publicity. That said, if I have enjoyed a certain product more than average, it will certainly reflect in the stories.
Choosing a Running Shoe (Apr 2015) – Some advice on how to pick your first pair. Don’t worry if you hate it almost immediately; most of us do.
Importance of Patience (Feb 2015) – How training requires strength, stamina, dedication, and oodles of patience!
Getting Started (Jan 2015) – Tips on how to go from couch to coached!
Triviality of Detail
If you can tell, I am feeling a bit Bond, James Bond. If he can have a movie called the Quantum of Solace then I jolly well am justified writing a blog entry titled such. But it is true folks, life is about the bigger picture, not the 300mm zoom version shot from a voyeuristic… Continue reading Triviality of Detail
Shopping Should Be A Singular Activity
Men Don’t Take No For An Answer
Disclaimer: The CYA Clause
The new corporate conglomerate is a very scared body. So traumatised are they by the very people that they try to serve and save that they don’t know anymore how to get up in the morning and breathe without pissing off some activist, a minority community, or an endangered species of a rare marsupial. What… Continue reading Disclaimer: The CYA Clause
How to do business in North & South India
Doing business is easy, but not in India. On the degree of being a difficult thing to do, business in India ranks right behind removing your own appendix without enough anaesthetic. Sure there may be government subsidies but that means dealing with government officials in the first place. Save having in-laws over for your honeymoon,… Continue reading How to do business in North & South India
Are You a Man or a Matador?
I have just come back from Spain, perhaps the most homophobic country in the world. Either that or they are all closet homosexuals with a deep-rooted insecurity and some sort of need to “fit in”. Sounds rude right? Well it was all fine till I went for a bull fight, or, as they like to… Continue reading Are You a Man or a Matador?
That Telephone Call…
Like a mild rash in the nether regions, we have all got it at one point or another. At all odd hours, odd situations – “Hello, Good evening sir/ma’am, would you like a credit card/loan/phone connection…they are like spam in your mailbox except that unlike spam they arrive at the most inauspicious of occasions. I… Continue reading That Telephone Call…
Preparing for death – Ills beyond the will!
I have never had an ugly dream where I got up in the middle of the night sweating and palpitating. I would like to though, would make me feel like that guy in the “November Rain” video. Statistics have shown that most such people were having nightmares about being trapped, suffocation, arranged marriages, free-falling…mostly, deathly… Continue reading Preparing for death – Ills beyond the will!