I was educated in Pilani, Providence, Delhi, Rishi Valley, Bombay, Cambridge, Austin and places in between. Once a computer scientist, I have written for my suppers for many years now: about political and social issues, travel, sports and mathematics. Computer science stresses clear thinking, reason, logic and getting to the heart of matters. Maybe those things shape my writing. Maybe not. My writing has won me several awards, including the Statesman Rural Reporting award, the Outlook/Picador nonfiction prize and the Newsweek/Daily Beast South Asia Commentary Prize. I've published nine books, most recently “Roadwalker: A Few Miles on the Bharat Jodo Yatra” (Penguin Random House, 2024). I live in Bombay with my wife Vibha, children Sahir and Surabhi, and cat Aziz. I miss my Rhodesian Ridgeback, Shaka ... but hey, I'm learning blues harmonica. I also write at Death Ends Fun: deathendsfun.stck.me Email: dilip.fb [at] gmail.com
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by Dilip D’Souza Many years ago, I spent a lazy evening in the Parque Balvanero Vargas in Limón, Costa Rica. I use that word deliberately, because I was lulled into laziness by the animal I was watching. In a diary I kept about that trip are these lines: “A small sloth is hanging upside down…