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Yesterday marked the birthday of Former President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherji. When I completed my first solo circumnavigation and made landfall in Mumbai, three Indian Air Force helicopters carried out a fly-past overhead. One of them had the President of India onboard. As I berthed my vessel alongside the Gateway of India and marched up its steps, I saw the Hon’ble President waiting with a keen, almost childlike energy. When I saluted and made my report, he returned the

In 2018, when I entered the Indian Ocean in the 32-foot replica I anounced that I was finally in the backyard of the Indian Navy. There, along the eastward track lay a point at the intersectino of a line drawn between Perth and Cape Town, and another dropped south from Kanyakumari, where a scattering of four French Austral Lands lie: Kerguelen, Crozet, Amsterdam and St Paul. It was at this intersection that I, a few weeks after making the cheerful announcement, found myself s

A guaranteed tool for success exists, though not in the way most people imagine. I have searched for such a thing for most of my life, and I doubt anyone can truly promise one. But there is an idea I discovered as a schoolboy that has stayed with me and shaped many of my biggest decisions. It came from a small book I picked up in the 11th grade, Martin Gardner's Mathematical Circus, and it taught me something surprisingly powerful about risk and commitment. He described a sim