Tag: Mumbai
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Mumbai to Hyderabad Road Trip in a 7.5-Year-Old Tata Tigor
A real-world Mumbai to Hyderabad road trip in a 7.5-year-old Tata Tigor, covering fuel efficiency, drive time, road quality, fatigue, and Indian highway realities.
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Floods in Mumbai, mockery of the sprirt
The joke often goes like “If IMD says carry your umbrella today, then you don’t need to because it rained yesterday.” The same thing happened on 29th of August, 2017.
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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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Hot Mumbai overheats during summer again!
Burn up the energy this summer, but don’t buy a cooler. 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. I remember writing an article way back in 2009 about hot summer that year. And it is a…
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Metro: It just got 'Mumbai'ed!
Mumbai saw the newest addition to its glory in the form of Mumbai Metro, and it made every mumbaikar happy. But the sudden announcement of the metro was left for open debate. The state needed to show some progress and are under pressure due to the upcoming assembly elections. Started construction in 2006, it was…
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A year with my TVS Wego!
TVS Wego, the scooter of the year 2011. TVS Wego, my first ever vehicle. The Chits More than a year ago, I got my hands on this two-wheeler. I was confused between buying a Car and Bike, and was wondering what should I be doing. At home, along with Mom, Dad and my sis, we…
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Finally, the inflation has hit devotees
We have always heard this many times over, and in the movie Oh My God, where Paresh Rawal mouths the dialouge – “Inke yaha recession main bhi income kam nahi hoti, balki badh thi hai kyu ki log daar ke maare aur jhanjat se bahar nikalne ke liye aur zyada daan denge” (For these people,…
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That rape thing is not good… media banks on a story yet again!
It is another gang rape, this time in Mumbai. We have been unable to wake up even after 16th December tragedy with Damini. The recent news of gang rape in Mumbai struck me like a bolt, that too in an area like Lower Parel at 6.30 PM in the evening. The place was secluded, the property…
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Street Lights at mid-noon! Why?
These pictures tell you the carelessness towards the saving of Electricity that we pay for, as part of our taxes every month. Why are using CFLs at our home to save energy when the BMC / Reliance Energy or the concerned authorities can waste it just like this? Yes, we do use CFLs because it…
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Not so Meter Jam!
I had read in the Mumbai Mirror about this initiative called Meter Jam. Because strikes need a strike back! We’re tired of meter that always reads more than it should, drivers who refuse to ply and demand return fare whenever they want. And if all that wasn’t enough, now we have to deal with strikes…