How easy or difficult is it to don the India blazer and represent the country in an international sporting event? The answer is not so simple. It depends on a variety of factors. The most important of all, to my mind, is the first answer which sport interests you the most. If the choice of…
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Golf is a simple game but hard to play. In essence the rule is very simple. One just has to hit a 1.68 inch diameter ball and put it into a hole four and a quarter inches wide. And one has to do it with the lowest number of hits of the ball, or strokes…
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It is said that golf is like a love affair. If you don’t take it seriously, it is no fun. If you do take it seriously, it ends up breaking your heart. This is so true. I remember the first time I was woken up at some unearthly hour before dawn by my father who…
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I could not sleep. At best I had a disturbed night, given the excitement that was building up for what the morning would bring. Many many months of planning was finally coming together when two slow boats would start out on a journey that had so much time, effort, resources and money invested in it….
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It was a heady night on the last day of February. I could not wait long enough to catch my flight to Colombo to start A Slow Boat Around Sri Lanka. I had weird pieces of luggage and gear and I was certain that I was horribly overweight. I had already pre-paid 15 kg of…
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Exhilaration. Elation. Animation. Enthusiasm. Eagerness. Anticipation. Delirious. Emotional. Zeal. Zest. Pepped. Zinged. One thing common to all these words is the feeling of intense excitement and anticipation each the clock ticks away at the seconds. There are only three days to go before I embark on the greatest and grandest expedition of my life, paddling…
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It is a happy day for me. Today, February 11, 2020 I was presented with two enormously good pieces of news. Two things that are entirely independent of each other and one of them directly connected to the expedition. But first, the first one, one that has nothing to do with A Slow Boat Around…
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As you might have gathered from the earlier posts, I have been looking for a way to manage a Shore Support Team. Essentially to hire a vehicle with a driver. All our non-essential gear, not required during the day’s paddle, can be transported in the vehicle, while the driver can act as our local liaison,…
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Though it is unknown whether Murphy was the one who actually coined the law that goes by his name, but it essentially states that, “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” And like all good wives, there is another law attributed to Murphy’s wife, goes by the name Mrs Murphy’s Law and states, “Anything…
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It has been famously said, “a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”. It is so true. In fact on an expedition like A Slow Boat Around Sri Lanka, I look at it like it is not so much a journey of a million paddlestrokes, but a single paddlestroke repeated a million…
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