Month: September 2024

Sporting Insights -15 Tennis -Why the Second Serve? In his engaging book filled with intriguing anecdotes, Tennis: Origin and Mysteries, written by Malcolm Whitman, the US National Tennis Champion for three successive years between 1898 and 1900, the author explores the origin of all quaint practices in Tennis. After searching for evidence of the origin for second serve and not finding anything concrete, he concludes by quoting the gossip of its origin related to a King with poor serving ability, …

3. Lessons Learnt Two is better than one, especially in longer walks. The maximum distance of solo walks I have done is around 20 KM. For longer walks I prefer to have company, often two, but never beyond four. The initial few hours on the first day, we tend to talk, but later it is rare that we speak without a specific message. Company gives me the confidence to walk across unknow terrains, especially with stray dogs around. Having been …

2. Same People, New Learnings The urban-rural divide in men’s attire for the young is completely eroded. Denim pants, colourful printed shirts, and premium branded t-shirts like Gucci and Armani, though pirated versions, can be seen everywhere. If jeans pants democratised fashionable attire a few decades ago, the past few years have made the latest designs in shirts and t-shirts available all across locations, thanks to online shopping and the presence of small retail outlets selling surplus and export reject …

Sept24 B’lore-Mysore Walkathon These four blogs capture what I saw, whom we met, thoughts and lessons from this four-day walkathon along with my nephew Retd Lt. Col. Chandrashekar, from Bangalore to Mysore covering 151 KM. Spread over four days and three nights, halting at Bidadi, Chanapatna and Mandya, it was an insightful and enjoyable experience.   Starting at 5 am on September 9th, we reached Bidadi around 2 PM, a distance of 36 KM passing through the old ring road …