Breakdance in Paris 2024 Olympics: Can An Art Become a Game? If you are wondering how Breakdance is a part of Paris 2024 Summer Olympics, be rest assured you are not alone. This highlights the distinction between art and sports that is blurring with each passing day. Curious, I searched for a conceptual model that differentiates an art from a sport to understand how it was included in Olympics. Luckly, I found a model that separates not only art from …
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Sporting Insights -16 Finding the Right Balance between Sports & Commerce What at start seems a tough art to master, but soon becomes our second nature is cycling. The art of balance is one of the key life skills that we learn at a young age. The same seems to be the case in sports too. Commercially successful sports like football, Tennis, and cricket have learnt to balance commercial interest with sporting excellence effortlessly, which for many other sports seems …
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 …
With no desire to travel outside the local confines of Malleswaram, Bangalore my residential area, a jam-packed tour of 31 days, between February 17 to March 17 to Australia and New Zealand was to say the least beyond hectic, adventurous and exciting.Covering twelve cities/towns, using road, rail, air and waterways, we also explored Skywalk, Bridge Climb, Gondola rides, Putting, Cable cars and a dozen treks across hills, coasts and meadows to add more thrills. What made the journey more endearing …
1 Looking Back with Gratitude, April 1, 2023 Today, April 1, 2023, I start the 4th phase of my three decades plus career. The first phase of 18 focused years was in Wipro, the highlight of which was the NYSE listing on October 19, 2000. The second phase of 11 reflective years saw me experience the academics and social sectors, in IISc Dept of Management Studies teaching Corporate Finance, leading the Technology Initiatives in Azim Premji Foundation and as a …
On a whim, I started writing on August 1, these short snippets formy 60th birthday that month. Over the next 60 days, it was arewarding experience to write over 60 pieces and post them on myFacebook and LinkedIn page. I am amazed at the power of socialmedia that helped me connect with many friends, teachers, andmentors that I had lost touch in the past few decades.There are many more people who made me what I am. My heartfeltgratitude to each …
Sporting Insights -1 A Sport in Which Left-handers are banned…, May 6, 2024 Imagine Cricket without Gary Sobers, David Gover, Saurav Ganguly or Wasim Akram, likewise tennis without Rod Laver, Rafael Nadal, or Martina Navratilova, or for that matter any other game without left-handers. The sport would lose half its charm. But there is a sport in which left-handers are banned, because they have an unfair advantage. The sport is Jai Alai. Jai Alai is a sport similar to squash …
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