Coming Soon  ·  Aug 2026

A Memoir of Inheritance, Endurance, and Learning to Stay

The Eleventh
Kilometer

My father walked eleven kilometers to get to school.
I crossed an ocean to build a life.

For years, I thought I was choosing my own path.
Only later did I realize—I was repeating his.

This is a story about what we inherit… and what it takes to finally stay.

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"Presence cannot be purchased later."

About the Book

Two journeys.
One inheritance.

This book traces two parallel lives — a father and a son — and the quiet truth that passed between them.

The Father

The Son

Vattem, Telangana
First in family with a degree

Vattem → BITS Pilani → Carmel, IN
Angry. Lost. Restless. 11,000 km from home.

Civil servant — quit at peak
Left everything. On purpose.

Corporate America — quit at peak
Years given. Years lost.

11 km before sunrise, every day
Discipline. Silence. Presence.

Six World Marathon Majors
Running. Loss. Searching.

32 years building spiritual institutions
Karma Yogi

From finish lines to boardroom bridges
Learning what it means to serve

  • A father's sacrifice that became a son's standard
  • Three losses that changed everything

चरैवेति
Charaiveti — Keep Moving.
The ancient Sanskrit mantra that runs through every page — until the question becomes: moving toward what?

From the Memoir

I came home irritated.

A plate of upma sat on the table—soft, white, steaming.

I pushed it.

It slid, then crashed onto the floor.

My mother turned from the stove.
She didn't shout. She didn't react.

She just looked at me.

That look stayed with me longer than the anger.

Who This Book Is For

You might recognize
parts of yourself.

  • You have carried a loss you haven't named yet
  • You've moved fast — career, ambition, miles — and felt empty at the finish
  • You think about what your parents sacrificed and wonder if you've honoured it
  • You've asked yourself: what am I actually running toward?

About the Author

JR Sandadi

Writing this memoir was an act of reliving — and reliving amplifies. What began as an exercise in putting memory to words became something I hadn't anticipated: deeply therapeutic. Some chapters were rough. Returning to certain moments meant sitting inside them again. Every difficult page was worth it.

I spent twenty-two years in corporate America. I ran six World Marathon Majors. I founded nonprofits, served on boards, chaired coalitions, and kept moving — the way you do when movement feels like the same thing as purpose.

This book is what happened when I stopped.

It began with my father. Not the man I knew, but the boy I never met — growing up in rural Telangana. Understanding that boy helped me understand the man I had become.

I write about faith, inheritance, loss, and the discipline of presence — not because I've mastered any of them, but because writing is how I find my way back.

The Eleventh Kilometer is my first book.

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