Double dhamaka from IndiGo. Got a discount on excess baggage (their staff offered without being asked), and a tray full of goodies in flight.

Greetings on Krishna Janmashtami!

Quite a riveting read about how Freya Terry handled knockdowns. After smarting from my first experience, I made it a point to be inside the boat lying on the floorboard during knockdown conditions to avoid injuries from fall. (Except once when I was outside and it was recorded

Quite interesting to learn that the cost of a circumnavigation is very close to the cost of an average sized statue in India.

Good luck to all athletes participating in the Paris Paralympics!

On 29th August 2013, I had the privilege of receiving the Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award from the President of India. Named after the legendary mountaineer Tenzing Norgay, who alongside with Sir Edmund Hillary, was the first to scale the summit of Mount Everest on 29th

Folks, #TheChanakyaDiaries', a publication devoted to 'Foreign Affairs, Geopolitics & National Security' was launched recently. Helmed by Major Gaurav Arya (Retd), it marks a stunning debut in the 'Strategic space'. The inaugural issue is visually attractive & has rich, varied content

It’s found its way into the OED. You can use it, don’t worry.

Sometimes, crossing the start line is a big victory by itself. Two years ago, on this date and at this hour, I set off to finish an unfinished business. The “thank yous” I am screaming come with a sigh of relief because only God, my family and close friends knew what hurdles I

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“The world must be all messed up,” he said then, “when men travel first class and literature goes as freight”. ~Gabriel García Márquez

Celebrating the memory of our beloved Admiral Awati on his birth anniversary today. Not a chance coincidence this, to share it with Ganpati Bappa, blessed were all the beginnings, all the voyages associated with him. HBD Admiral. Wish you an inexhaustible supply of Toblerones.

More importantly, the book prompted him to ask a simple question - why no one from India was attempting a similar voyage despite our huge coastline, shipbuilding and maritime history. He was not just asking a question, but manufacturing an answer itself. And the answer, to

The analemma of the sun

These days, when I am back on land and take communication for granted, I am reminded of those days when I used to scan the horizon for ships, so that someone might transmit a little message home, and maybe, just maybe, I could hear back from my wife too.

September 7 marked the birth anniversary of the late Vice Admiral Manohar Prahlad Awati, considered the father of Indian circumnavigation missions. On the occasion, The New Indian Express published an article that examined the evolution of the Indian Navy’s maritime adventures. Read

Quite thrilled to hear the announcement about “Nanda”, an #LLM developed by Inception AI, a G42 company, in collaboration with MBZUAI and Cerebras. NANDA is a 13-billion parameter model trained on 2.13 trillion tokens going to benefit half a billion people !

There is a mathematical reasoning to this. Which I read in a book by Martin Gardner. About 30 years ago. It was called Mathematical Carnival. Of course, he did not mention it explicitly. But there is a connection. Kept the lesson close to my heart. Those who win are not the