The Auto-Rickshaw Manifesto
A love letter to India's most democratic vehicle — part taxi, part philosophy, part chaos theory.
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A love letter to India's most democratic vehicle — part taxi, part philosophy, part chaos theory.
आपको देख दिल पे चल जाती है अभी भी छुरिया, पर आपने तो फेका था हमें जैसे सीली हुई भुजिया। खा पी कर ले रही हो तुम डकार, पर क्या कभी याद किया तुमने पुराना प्यार?...
A chill runs through my body, crossing my spine, and within touching distance of my brain. I can only feel the cold water massaging my bruises, playfully...
There are summers, and then there is that idiotic summer. I was interning with an organization studying tribal arts in the Rathwa tribe dominated Chota Udaipur...
Over the past 2-3 years I have travelled across various parts of the country. Most of these trips were planned and executed around a friend’s wedding, and...
हम प्यार करते थे उनसे बेशुमार, उनके इश्क मैं हुए थे बीमार हमे लगा वो भी है उतनी ही बेक़रार, कर बैठे प्यार का इज़हार. फिर क्या कहे क्या हुआ अच्छे खासे दिल का...
महिना था फरवरी का, समय था वोह अफरा तफरी का Placement का चल रहा था त्यौहार, क्योकि आजकल वही तो रह गया है प्रबंधन शिक्षा का सार. मैं बैठा था interview कक्ष मैं,...
He could feel a few giggles right behind his back, he knew it was gone. Again! As Rattu turned back and put his hand into his bag’s tiffin box pocket, he felt...
Past 2-3 months… It was that kind of a mad night, winter just about knocking on the door, truck flipping on road, tyre busting and finally a bang bang...
बचपन से ही मेरी राजनीति मैं काफी रूचि रही है। ९० के दशक मैं भारतीय राजनीति मैं खासे उलटफेर हुए, परन्तु उनमे से सबसे रोचक क्षण तब आया जब अटलजी ने प्रधानमंत्री...
Mondays were always like this, fking boring, although I am not allowed use the F word as I am still in class VIth, it brings out the haaawww from you. So we...
Scene 1: I was behind him, on 4th gear but always afraid to go a bit faster, my foot always flirting with the foot brake, and then something strange happened....
That thumb, the stupid angutha, the one which appears on Thums Up bottles and nowadays keeps fiddling with blackberry, goes near the incisors and gets itself a...
Down there, next to the hot fish plate and shiny gravels, she just lies there, she belonged to someone stupid, someone ever so simple, disturbed, but happy at...
Remember when we were kids and, - Someone fired an abuse like the dreaded S Word - Someone's pant dropped by mistake - Someone choked up after going on...
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Sometime in 1996, somewhere in Chhattisgarh “Bhaiya kuch fugge (balloon) dena, arre yeh nahi, who paani waale” “Lo Beta, 5rs ke 100, rang wagera chahiye” ...
On all those cycle journeys back from school me, my namesake and few more friends spent most of our time chit-chatting, drinking water from my Milton bottle...
Happy Republic Day. Enjoyed a wonderful morning today at college, all the National Events tend to be extremely pleasing events, and as I felt today if it was...
Posted one long back on Kids. Today was time for another classic incident:) Words from a 6th Class Kiddo on the car backseat, "Virginity is a man's gift to...
Sometime in 2008, Mumbai J Midterms, horrible they are. I always thought the worst gets over after coming to a b-school, this is over and above worst. Midterms...
Sometime in 1998, somewhere in Chattisgarh Navratri is the best time of the year. Like yesterday I left from home at around 5 PM. After our customary cricket...
Is this the end of the much thought of Small City Dreams, or is it just another passing phase. Past few months have been the most boring in my life, I am...
लुईस कैरोल की एलिस को कल्पना के उस अद्भुत संसार में जाने के लिए खरगोश महाशय के घर का रास्ता नापना होता था लेकिन मुझे (याने जब में बच्चा था) या मेरे जैसे कई...
When I used to read Naresh's blog while he was doing MBA I always thought it is surely something which I will enjoy. Talking about things which we {include...
Vada Pav is God's Own Food in Mumbai. Have gulped thousands of them since being in Mumbai, it comes in various formats and my favorite one is one near NM (Vile...
Some are doing it, some do not. I always seem to fall in the latter. They do different things, different activities and seem to enjoy it all. For me somehow...
Tired mind, tired soul, tired body, sitting in a lecture and looking at the red layer forming on my eyes is a habit now, it was the same tomorrow, my friend...
After two and a half months at SP, it seems I have slowly started realizing the fact that most my bakbak, most of my stupid and sometimes interesting jokes...
Class 4th-5th It all started with that, we were given some sort of scholar badges and all (for consistent performances with a particular score in core...
Date 13th May’2002 Train Bangalore-Delhi Rajdhani Express AC III Tier Passengers Pattu (that is me, school nickname), Addu and Niddu Travel Purpose Journey...
Yesterday was IITJEE day. This time 2.5 lakh people appeared for it compared to 1.5 lakh which sat for screening when I gave it. Nice to read that they gave a...
This thing getting blogged a couple of weeks later after it happened. Ok something finally went inside after a gap of almost 3 months(last time it happened)....
Me in college, me in Gandhinagar and feels great, that drying heat in the afternoon, and that freezingly cold chill at night, R-World and Mohan Dhaba to...
Last to last week I had a reunion at my place with all my college ke friends (40 of them) having a great time. But somehow I miss my school ki junta too much....
It's 14th November. It's Chacha Nehru's Birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY 14 years back in history me as a standard 2 student would have been receiving chocolates...
When I first saw the Thriller video as a kid I swear I was scared. I still remember seeing it first time at my Dad's friend house eating Salted Pistacho's when...
Just today I saw a vintage Arsenal performance after so so many days. It was the same one touch football that Wegner had promoted all these years which was...
I came across this strange Geometrical figure in secondary school through an Ogden Nash poem on Visit to Dentist. These are the lines from the poem “It’s going...