Abhijeet Dangat

A tale of anxiety disorder, attention span and re-building a good old habit.

My review of the book 'Go! India's Sporting Transformation' for Untold Sports Stories

I spent ten days in the Himalayas, meditating for 12 hours a day. Here’s what happened.

My Mementos From 8 European Cities on 35mm

The adventures of Abhijeet, or how one man revisited his childhood by tracking one of the world’s most famous reporters in his home country.

In this post, I write (with Sheree Hooker) all about my love affair with Banh Mi and why it has earned the title, ‘King of Sandwiches’!

Op-ed: A fan of late-night talk shows, I write about my experiences watching some of my favourite hosts live.

This photo essay is my expression of the unapologetically clichéd admiration for Paris.

12 June 2018 was a historic day in international affairs. President of the United States, Donald Trump met with Supreme Leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Un for the first time at Singapore Summit. I happen to be in Singapore on the same day. Thanks to a long layover at Changi Airport and the United States visa in my Indian passport, I was able to take a free 2.5 hours long tour of the remarkable city-state.

I travelled to Vienna and visited the record store in which Jesse and Celine get into the music booth and have a moment listening to the song Come Here by Kath Bloom.

European microstates of Andorra, Liechtenstein and Monaco are ruled by Princes, not Kings or Queens. They all are members of the United Nations but not the European Union.

Andorra’s Co-Princes mostly have a ceremonial role, but Princes of Liechtenstein and Monaco hold high power, influence and wealth to their title.

When you hear Puducherry (formerly known as Pondicherry), you think of the former French colony with Promenade Beach, Sri Aurobindo Ashram and Auroville. Well, there is more to the Union Territory of Puducherry than the city of Puducherry. The Puducherry we travelled to was a place called Mahe, an outlying administrative unit of the Union Territory of Puducherry. It is an enclave of Kerala — more than 600 kilometres driving distance from the city of Puducherry on the opposite coast.

Everywhere I went in Scotland; I was left charmed by the people. The feeling I had interacting with all these people was the same as the feeling I had seeing James McAvoy talk to Craig Ferguson on the old Late Late Show.

The sport of tennis is well liked across the world. It is a sport with truly global proportions. It is also one of the major sports with strong traditions, and little changes in its evolution. I am satisfied with the state of tennis today but I am not sure about its immediate future. In the competitive world of professional sports, I believe tennis is failing to earn a new generation of young fans who are more attracted to basketball (NBA) and mixed martial arts (UFC) these days.

Currently, it feels as if the entire world has paused. The coronavirus disease 2019 also known as COVID-19 has disrupted normal life, and the entire world is severely affected. The world of tennis is no exception to this. Until the beginning of last month, things did not seem so bad. And then all of a sudden, the whole world changed.