As I sit here jotting down notes and ideas while eating my protein bar, I reflect upon how I tried to stay healthy during that hectic time in life known as college. We’re thrown into a cluster of classes and disarray of scheduling. I know that running around replaces relaxation, and napping tends to take [...]

earthy smellsof rainy feelcrown my headin coming rain At 2 p.m. this afternoon, it rained after a long stretch of rather hot and dry days. That lovely after-the-rain-smell filled the air, and I inhaled lung-fulls of it. That wonderful scent is very often listed among people’s favourite smells, along with other smells like that of [...]

Who Will Challenge Vishwanathan Anand next year? The world title candidates semi-final in Kazan (the capital of Tartarstan) ended with a bizarre shoot-out that saw the G-men of Alexander Grischuk and Boris Gelfand making it to the final on Thursday after beating K-men Vladimir Kramnik and Gata Kamsky. The Kamsky-Gelfand match was swinging to and [...]