Category: India
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Road Ethics: How to ride your bike on roads? Part I
I have been writing about some bits here and there on the subject for road safety and road ethics. I have argued with many and some of these are obvious and basic but still do not get followed. Forget about getting a best4 quality jacket and helmet, a bare bones basic ones are rarely found. Road…
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Air Cooler: Should I buy one in Mumbai? NO!
It is summer time again, and Mumbai started to get heated up. Sun has not been among the kind to have treated us this way, unfortunately. And many are thinking of buying an air cooler or desert coolers. I remember writing an article way back in 2009 when Mumbai overheated and my last article about hot summer…
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Why I quit The Himalayan Tribe Working Committee
Update: After I quit the accusations were still flying around, and some well wishers and naysayers informed me a few of them. Here are my clarifications. I am accused of lying – that I never told them web server space cost Rs. 15,000. Well to be honest, I lent THT the server space that I already owned…
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Riding Ethics: Why should you say a no?
This is a guest post by Ankit Desai, who wrote this piece out of his pure passion for riding ethics that people tend to ignore. This post is in part of the series of Riding Ethics and Road Safety that I am working on. Share your views in the comment below. This week yet again…
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The Himalayan Tribe: Morbe Dam Off Road Video now live
I have uploaded a new video on my Indianomics channel on Youtube. Three fellow THTians (The Himalayan Tribe’s men) went for a off-road ride to Morbe Dam. Morbe Dam is a gravity dam on the Dhavari river near Khalapur, Raigad district. They came back with a few videos. I loved the ones where they create…
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RE Service Camp with The Himalayan Tribe
THT has been my man-Friday for anything related to my Yeti, the Himalayan. Two weeks ago, THT and Royal Enfield met up at Borivali Service Center for a training camp. Unfortunately I missed that. During the question answer session, the discussion turned to issues everyone faces. Taking a stone from the rock solid guys who…
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Cost of your helmet is how much you value your head!
Why is your helmet important? Let’s talk. I have been writing about Road Safety for a while now, and I think it is time to create a new category on my blog. I will be moving my previous articles under this category. It is important subject for me, and you alike. Especially, if you live in…
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Auto Headlamps On or AHO in India to go live in April 2017
Alright, if you are a friend on Facebook, then you might have seen some of my posts talking about Auto Headlamps on or AHO. Government of India had issued a notification to all the two-wheeler manufacturers or importers in India. According to the rule, AHO is mandatory from April 2017. KTM, and other big bikes already…
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De-monetization – impacts common man, parallels to history
I have been reading the news about de-monetization ever since it was announced at 8th of November, 2016. It is surely a day that will stand out in history, like on 16th January, 1978. That year, that day, the currency notes of Rs 1,000, Rs 5,000 and Rs 10,000 were scrapped. I do not even remotely remember…
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Yeti. The Himalayan beast in my life
Yeti is what I named him. Many preferred to call it a goat, a Himalayan Goat. But for me, it never looked like one. It always looked like the beast. Untamed, but well mannered and imposing. It has been an agonizing three and half months of a wait, to be honest. Waiting time for my beast…