The Kuttappi

Author: Arun Basil Lal

  • Deshadanam 2014 – My Discovery Of India

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    When it was time to decide upon my career, one of the criteria I had for myself was that I shouldn’t be geographically bound by what I do. Travelling was a priority even then and the biggest of all the travel plans I had ever dreamt of was a journey across India. On the 3rd…

  • How (And Why) I Really Ran My First Half Marathon

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    21.097 kms. That’s what it takes to finish a half marathon. And on the 29th of last December, that’s what I did at the first Cochin International Half Marathon. When @Hari told me about the run in the first week of December, the idea was to just be part of the event. Do the 7km…

  • Is It Worth Going On The Jagriti Yatra?

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    Some of you might remember me taking part in the Jagriti Yatra (previously Tata Jagriti Yatra) and writing about it. This was in 2010. Lately, many folks I know are being selected for the yatra, which can only mean that my circle has some amazing people in it. Attending the yatra isn’t free, and most…

  • 5 Good Books I Read In 2013

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    I was obsessed with reading in high school. I have read every one of those Hardy Boys hard cover novels that was out there at that time. I lost this obsession while I was in college. However, recently I have managed to bring it back to life. Biographies and Travelogues replaced Novels and Fiction. This…

  • 25 Year Old Boy

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    Wordsworth said, “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility”. On the night of my 25th birthday, this September 14th, I was hanging with a few friends and late into the night, I found a corner and I took on a voyage through my past. I…