About the banterer

Mother of two girls, amateur athlete aspiring to run 42.2kms now that I am 42, part-time writer, second born fauji kid, management school drop- out, traveler, entrepreneur and erstwhile employee of the world’s largest escorted touring company, founder of India's first outbound adventure travel firm www.activeholidaycompany.com  – like many of us on this planet – I am a little bit of many things and still not satisfied!

Those are words of wisdom that you can churn out after you are…. 40! Afterall that is when you are young enough to be adventurous (thank God 40 is the new 25) and old enough to be experienced; young enough to try but old enough to not mind if you don’t succeed; young enough to cry and old enough to not be bothered if someone is looking - in other words Wise Enough to be Foolish. That incidentally is the title of my book. See, I like to write so much that I managed to get a whole book together and yes, it's published – in print, I mean!

But it is not just to promote my book and coax the world to buy it that I have started this blog, though you should pick a copy  because me thinks it’s a great story (why else would I write it, huh?).

The real reason behind this blog is that I am that long distance runner with a B+ blood type but an A+ personality. I run, therefore I think. And I love travel. Thus, I have so much mental, physical and emotional excess baggage that I need therapy all the time – and nothing’s quite as good as writing. Plus, it’s free! Anyway, people around me now are tired of listening to my gyaan and in the absence of a real audience I have now decided to write for a virtual one! 

Apart from running, travelling and writing, I love to live the good life (minus the Jimmy Choo shoes I stress). I don’t like anything on four wheels – unless it has wings attached to it. I love scandal, enjoy showing-off and I attract an unreal amount of drama in real life. But it suits me fine as it gives me more  to think of, to laugh at and of course to write about!

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IN THE NEWS!!

DNA – July 26, 2012 – On making travel experiences count

Cosmopolitan Magazine - June 2012 – Genius Travel Tips

India Today Travel Plus - April 12, 2012 – On Tailor making travel dreams

Luxury Boating India - On River Cruising

DNA - Aug 7, 2011 – on the Indian Traveller choosing winter vacations

Muscat Daily 22 Feb 2011 – Globus launch in Oman

DNA – Jan 9, 2011 – on Leisure travellers opting for coach tours

Times of India - 29 nov 2010 – Indian tourists flood foreign shores  

Outlook Traveller Magazine - 01 May 2010 – on impact of volcanic ash on Indian travel

The Hindu - March 28, 2010 – A story on the Great Indian Traveller

Asian Traveller - Jan 28, 2009 – Woman of the month interview

Sri Lanka Business News - March 11, 2008 Globus’ 80th Anniversary Celebrations

The Telegraph (Kolkatta) – April 25, 2006 – An interview on women travellers

Hindu Business Line May 30, 2006 – on Spa and Cruise vacation popularity with Indian Travellers

Economic Times 28 Jan 2006 – Globus family of brands comes to Indi
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She is Jack of all Traits The Hindu - 30th September 2013.

Entrepreneur and marathon runner Gauri Jayaram debuts with her fictionalised memoir ‘Wise Enough to be Foolish’

She juggles a full time career with a travel company, raises her two little girls, runs four times a week, blogs and also loves to toe the line with her dare devil attitude. And more recently, Gauri Jayaram wrote her first novel Wise Enough to be Foolish, which won rave reviews for its snappy style and realistic portrayal of an Indian girl’s life. In Hyderabad for the launch of her book at Landmark, Gauri says, “I’m just the kind of person who has to be doing something all the time.”

Living Life on her own Terms - The Hindu Metro - September 19, 2013

Active-holiday advocate Gauri Jayaram debuts with a semi-fictional semi-autobiographical, Wise Enough to Be Foolish

I felt I had a story to tell and I shared that story,” says Gauri Jayaram, at the release of her debut novel, Wise Enough To Be Foolish — a memoir of sorts that captures a young woman’s journey, growth, and evolution. “It is partly autobiographical but there is an element of fiction to it — mostly to make it palatable for public consumption. Names have been changed, a few incidents have been fictionalised, many people who are my friends are squeezed into a single character, but this is to a large extent based on my life. I am driven by real life people and situations and have always found fact more interesting than fiction.”

A Life Lesson - The Pioneer - October 14, 2013

Gauri Jayaram’s fictional memoir Wise Enough To Be Foolish is about her heartbreak and bold decisions. She chats with Iknoor Kaur

In 1999 when Gauri Jayaram was holidaying in US on her ex-husband’s money, she proposed to a man via email. She had interacted with the man only eight months before through a matrimonial website and had never met him. Would you call her foolish? She calls herself “wise enough to be foolish.”

The Free Press Journal - November 10, 2013

This book is a fictionalised memoir that traces the journey of an Indian girls life, with all its challenges and delightful surprises.
Gauri Jayaram emerges as a good narrator in Wise Enough to be Foolish. In 51 chapters that constitutes her debut novel, she writes in a very candid manner her experiences with Indian men. Milind Soman famous actor and model says that it is an unputdownable book that every body should read. A unique feature of the book is that the novel has only fifty one chapters that makes reading easy and interesting.