17/05/2020 Day 54 Deep breathe, start the next phase. Lockdown 4.0 begins today. It has been extended for another fifteen days. Social, psychological and economic unravelling that has happened in these days is remarkable. In outdoor sports and adventure, we tend to deliberately seek adversity and experience hardship to push our limits of enduring the … Continue reading Day 54: Unravelling
Category: Lockdown Diary
Day 53: Seeking comfort in numbers
16/05/2020 Day 53 The counter continues to tick. It is more than fifty days, clearly in the ultra marathon zone. The conversations have decisively shifted. Beyond a point, more deaths is statistics. Not tragedy. Numbers have the ability to render an event into an objective occurrence and prepare them for inane comparisons with the historic. … Continue reading Day 53: Seeking comfort in numbers
Day 52: The sum
15/05/2020 Day 52 It has been hard to wrap my head around the news of an attack in Afghanistan. Three gunmen entered a hospital in Kabul and opened fire on women, infants, doctors and nurses. What kind of anger and rage can make men do this? Among the dead are sixteen women and an infant. … Continue reading Day 52: The sum
Day 51: Why I prefer outdoor workouts
Deccan Ultra Trail. Feb 2020 14/05/2020 Day 51 We have spent almost 15% of the year locked inside our homes. For those who preferred outdoors for their daily workouts this has been a huge blow. Moreover, March to May also are peak months for marathons, cycle rides and other outdoor events in most parts of … Continue reading Day 51: Why I prefer outdoor workouts
Day 50: Return to farms
13/05/2020 Day 50 ‘The primary motive for good care and good use is always going to be affection, because affect involves us entirely’, wrote Wendell Berry in an essay. He cites Aldo Leopold's example when in 1935 he bought an exhausted Wisconsin farm and began restoring it. Leopold was an ecologist. One imagines that he … Continue reading Day 50: Return to farms
Day 49: PM speaks of self-reliance
Evening sky. Day 49. 12/05/2020 Day 49 The remainder of this year has changed for many of us. In the months that children and parents would get ready for summer vacations we are sitting inside pondering our days ahead and worrying about our individual worries - school, college, job, relationships and whatever else. On all … Continue reading Day 49: PM speaks of self-reliance
Day 48: Inventories
11/05/2020 Day 48 On days that I do not make notes through the day a summary by the end of it becomes a tedious task. With a slowed pace at work and in personal life it gets even more difficult to make a journal entry without referring to news of the day or to articles … Continue reading Day 48: Inventories
