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Dear Friends, Greetings! After seven consecutive posts on running tips and running experiences, here I am with one of my favorite hobbies - writing a movie review. Today I watched this weekend release movie "Secret Superstar" coming from the stable of Aamir Khan productions.  Plot : The movie is about a high school girl Insiya (Zahira Wasim of Dangal fame) coming from a middle class Muslim family in Vadodara. Insiya, blessed with a gifted voice, nurtures the dream of becoming a singing superstar. Her partner in chasing the dream is her ever supporting mother Najma (Meher Vij) who had bought Insiya a guitar when the latter was just six years old. Insiya's family also comprises her grandmother, a cute kid brother and the villain of her life, her father Farooq (Raj Arjun). Farooq with patriarchal attitude can do all the things which can crush the dream of his child. He doesn't have any care his girl child and goes to the extent of beating his wife brutally ...

Dear Friends, Happy Deepavali! I could see more than 80 hits to my previous post in which I shared my experiences of my first venture running a 10K event. Thank you for your encouraging response! Running 10K had brought a different kind of confidence in me. I started believing in myself and in my own stamina. I could relate to a swimmer who has learnt his art in swimming pool suddenly crossing a good depth stream/river swimming from one end to another. Similar kind of feeling was there in other runners also in my running group. We continued our daily routine of practice sessions. After that event in Oct 2012 we got another chance in Mar 2013 to participate in another 10K which helped us in building further confidence. But by this time few of us - Prabhu, Sahana and myself started thinking about trying out a Half-Marathon (HM) in the 2013 edition of Celebration Mysore Run.  Preparation : Running a HM (21.1K) means more than doubling the level of bar. You need to run 11...

Dear Friends, Greetings!  I believe you are finding the tips useful and few of you might have started your running routine. Today I am going to tell the story on how I prepared for my first 10 km (10K which will be used hereon) race.  It was in 2011 when Life is Calling made their debut in Mysore with Celebration Mysore Run event. The event organizers had come to our campus to promote their event. By that time the running had become my daily fitness routine, it was but natural to get interested in the event. Since I had never experienced any kind of road running prior I opted for the least distance category i.e. 5K (Half Marathon and 10K being the main categories). My friends Ravi and Mohan also registered with me for the same category. We didn't do any special practice as at that point of time we didn't have anyone among our friends who had long distance running experience. We participated, started running, strolled some distance again picking the pace, the...