In 1983, forty years and a fortnight ago, I arrived in Pune Station from Madras (now Chennai) with a suitcase (a soft luggage from VIP) and a small shoulder bag. My brother in law Venkatesh picked me up from the station and we took a local train to a distant suburb called Begdewadi. We alighted... Continue Reading →
Half an hour or twenty minutes?
Vinay my nephew based in Toronto, Canada and I were chatting few Sundays back on WhatsApp video and somehow the conversation turned to some language howlers. He then mentioned an incident happened the previous day. He was checking the features of a mobile phone in a shop and the sales guy at the shop was... Continue Reading →
Romancing The RX 100 – Part II. Twenty Five Years Later.
"You don't stop riding when you get old, you get old when you stop riding." ― Anonymous The Blog - Why now? Writing the blog about our first southern odyssey twenty five years after we made the trip was one of most difficult tasks I took up in life; Romancing the RX-100 – A Southern Odyssey... Continue Reading →
A Sunday, A Yezdi and An Adventure (To all those Yezdi lovers)
‘Let the boys have their toys, a man needs a man’s bike’ was the advertisement from Enfield when the advent of 100 CC bikes almost killed the company which made Royal Enfield Bullet Bikes. Another bike which took the beating in the 100 CC onslaught was Yezdi – a favourite with everyone including your neighborhood... Continue Reading →
My brother goes to College – again!
My brother JK and I shared the same passion for our beloved Bajaj Kawasaki RTZ bike like the Parsi Man showing his love for his Bajaj Scooter in the ‘Hamara Bajaj Ad.’ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scltYH13uEY) (Google Image of the bike - only, ours was black!) On the 44th Independence day holiday, my brother and I were washing... Continue Reading →