We started from Bikaner at around 5AM in the morning. We had to drive just about 500 odd kilometers to reach Chandigarh through what Aadi assured me were the best highways of India – the roads of Punjab. As the…
For the first day in almost a week, we woke up at a civilized time. No more the need to beat the morning traffic, no more cities to bypass. We were in a leisurely place, an ancient place and no…
Yet another early start to the day to beat traffic in major cities. Day 1 was Bangalore, Day 2 was Pune-Mumbai and on this day it was Ahmedabad. When I visited Ahmedabad in 2017 I got thoroughly confused. People were…
When we were checking out from Pune I was immediately worried that we had overslept. As Aadi was struggling with the impossibly thick receptionists I saw a world outside flush with light akin to daylight. As the yawns faded away…
We had hoped to start at 3AM however managed to leave our home in Bangalore at 0335. Odometer was at 37888 kms and I had about a half a tank of diesel in the vehicle. Heading towards Hosur road I…
It is often said that the best planned trips never occur and the trips that occur are impromptu ones. Entering the month of October 2018 we had no clue that we were about to embark on a Trip of our…
It is always sad to bid adieu to a good friend. Even sadder to watch that friend wither away to a long drawn out but inevitable end. When that friend has been a companion for almost half your life it…
The biggest debate about Pyari is on whether he is male or female. I am of the firm opinion that he is a he and Aadi adamant that he is a she. There is no doubt however on the fact…
Like 2014, 2019 General Elections of India is turning out to be a controversial, heated up and passionate clash of cultures. Though not the first, one of the loudest salvos were fired in Lok Sabha on Friday, the 20th of…
Since 2014 we in India have been seeing a Modi wave. Elections after elections being won remarkably and at times even miraculously by the Saffron Juggernaut defying expectations and predictions leaving even the most tenacious journalists and pundits striving with…