When it comes to motorcycle riding gear, I typically have a three monsoon life-cycle expectation. My exisiting, combat-style textile gloves were bought as a monsoon stand-in for my regular REGear leather gauntlets and lasted beyond expectations as an all-ride runner. I knew I was pushing my luck though and the pandemic-induced break was put to…
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Amul Chocolate – A gift for someone you love!
An 80’s tag-line that meant chocolates I loved as a child and still do, even today…
Amul Chocolate – A gift for someone you love!
The Maruti Zen (MH410): Jelly Bean Memories
The Maruti Zen – the original shaped (MH410) one, was a huge hit with car buyers. To us, 90’s kids, it was the canvas for our custom-car dreams.
Do you Vespa! An ode to a hand geared-scooter icon
Hand-geared scooters may be something of a novelty today. Yet, up until only a few decades ago, Bajaj Chetaks & LML Vespa’s were pretty much the staple choice of transportation for the nation.
My #DeMonetization experience & some thoughts stemming from it
8th November, 2016 began on a fabulous note for me. Yummy home cooked food, my favourite folks around me and the preparations of an exciting two-week long motorcycling trip that was to begin the next day. I’d gone to the ATM and withdrawn 10 Thousand rupees, to help me with liquidity for the expenses in…
Jugaad is killing us
Mechanical failures aren’t exactly a new thing for Indian motorists. The reasons range from lax maintenance standards & ignorance on proper procedures, to sheer indifference towards statutory compliance. We carry on nevertheless. Because, what else can we do. It’s a game of survival out there & we all have got to do what we got…
Truck Tales
Our elders, how they carry us on their back, protecting us from the vagaries of life. Only so we grow on to become even more capable than them in the future and ensuring that the legacy is passed on, to the world…
The Parched Ghost of the Land
2016 had a rocky beginning when it came to water. As summer progressed, things started to go from bad to worse. From cities to the hinterland, water scarcity began to spread its deathly tentacles everywhere. The monsoons may be just around the corner, but it’ll be a real shame if we were to conveniently forget about…
The Guwahati Debacle
No it wasn’t their fault. The reporter who instigated the mob of louts for a story, he wasn’t to blame. The mob that perpetrated this heinous crime, they did it for reasons best known to them. The bystanders who simply looked on as an innocent girl was stripped and assaulted in front of their eyes,…
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