There is a particular kind of helplessness that sets in when you are sitting in a cab on the Western Express Highway at 9 AM, watching the meter climb while the vehicle moves roughly as fast as a determined pedestrian. Read more…
The Honest Case for Two Wheels in This City Mumbai is not an easy city to move around in. That’s just true. Distances that look manageable on a map stretch out considerably in real traffic. The local train is fast Read more…
Understand What Mumbai’s Roads Actually Demand Before anything else just be honest about what kind of riding environment Mumbai is. Traffic here operates on its own unwritten code. Signals are sometimes treated as suggestions. Lane discipline is loose. Honking is Read more…
Pune has a way of people who think they really know Pune. You can spend a days in Pune do the usual things like visit FC Road, Koregaon Park and maybe take a quick trip to Lonavala. Then you leave Read more…
Bangalore has a side to it. You can stay here for years. Just visit for a week and still feel like you’ve only scratched the surface. There’s the tech parks, the traffic, the Swiggy food deliveries and the IPL matches Read more…
Mumbai does not ease you in gently. The city arrives all at once. The scale of it, the noise, the sheer number of people moving in every direction simultaneously, the local train that is somehow both the city’s greatest engineering Read more…
Delhi traffic has a reputation that precedes it in every direction. I remember my first time hearing about it from a friend back home. He painted this picture of total madness, cows wandering everywhere, three lanes squeezing into one, horns Read more…
Friday evening arrives, you’re done, you tell yourself you’ll sort something out tomorrow. Saturday morning you’re still in bed at 9 scrolling through other people’s waterfall photos and misty hilltop shots thinking yeah, I should do that sometime. The thing Read more…
They come for a day, do the Rock Garden, walk around Sukhna Lake, maybe hit Sector 17 for some shopping and leave thinking they’ve seen it. And they have seen it, in the way you see a painting behind glass. Read more…
Kashmir On a Bike Is Just Different from Kashmir Through a Cab Window. The valley is so full of extraordinary places that even people who’ve lived here their whole lives often haven’t properly explored it. Every direction from Srinagar leads Read more…