The Airport Lounges Overcrowding Problem
“Just open more airport lounges”, but this is neither feasible nor will solve the airport lounges overcrowding problem in India or anywhere.
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My Experience of Paying with UPI on a KSRTC Bus
My experience of paying for a ticket with UPI on a KSRTC bus in Kerala via Google Pay, underscoring my observation that it might not be the best method for transit payments.
India needs to figure out Travel/Transit cards
India needs to mandate travel/transit cards for all types of public transport across the country to make travel easier and frictionless.
Slowdown: The Indian Automobile Consumer Comes of Age
Indians are not buying enough cars. Vehicle sales numbers have been falling for the past many months, generating mass hysteria sweeping the country. We’ve been warned repeatedly about the dire danger our economy is in, given that it apparently survives only thanks to the graces of the automobile industry, which has run crying to the…
How India Will Adopt Electric Mobility
The creative disruption Electric Vehicles will bring about will be revolutionary and unlike anything India has ever seen.
Answering Some Electric Vehicle Myths and Questions
Electric vehicles are the future. Most arguments levelled against EVs are only well-placed misconceptions. Did you know most EVs now offer 250-300 km range as standard on a single charge?
Kerala KSRTC Starts Regular Electric Bus Services
Kerala KSRTC operates electric buses on regular timetables on urban and inter-city routes. Ten buses run daily services between Trivandrum and Ernakulam.
#SaveKSRTC: The Pension System is Killing it
Kerala’s great KSRTC saga continues unabated. For the past three decades, the beloved people’s transportation corporation has been lurching from crisis to crisis, mostly of the financial nature, facing problems in everything from over staffing to buying diesel and spare parts to paying pensions and salaries. The present problem relates to pensions. There are thousands…
The Foolish Controversy Over the Aarey Metro Depot
Aarey is a neighbourhood in the northern Mumbai suburb of Goregaon. Aarey houses the famous Aarey Milk Colony and is famous for being a green zone, a lung space full of trees and greenery, a treasure indeed in a world where cities are incessantly being rid of their green cover under the guise of “development” by unscrupulous…
Will the Trump Train Trump the Train?
How the 45th US president-elect and the issues that dominated his high-voltage election campaign will actually turn out as a matter of policy continue to be subject to intense speculation. However, drowned out by all the din about the wall, illegal immigrants, Muslims, ISIS or trade pacts, there were a lot of other issues that…
To All Those Who Deride BMTC and Public Transport
The general contempt and hate the so-called new-generation upwardly mobile, MNC-employed, high-flying, English-speaking, car-driving, snobby, westernized self-appointed hypocritical middle-class Indians (but who are in reality the elite 2% of the Indian society; like for instance, Bangalore’s IT-coolie crowd) have towards public transport is well-known. It is explicitly visible on many levels and platforms, from casual office banter…
India, Do NOT Reduce Petrol Prices Please!!
As we all know, Crude oil prices have reached historical record low levels with prices touching $30 a barrel for the first time in 12 years! Oil prices have been in free fall since June 2014 when it was $105 a barrel, up front a ever-historic high of $143 in June 2008. Apparently this oil…