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India, Do NOT Reduce Petrol Prices Please!!

vadakkus9 years ago7 years ago014 mins

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…

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Child in One Hand, Activa in the Other! IotR 001

vadakkus11 years ago10 years ago02 mins

IotR stands for Idiots on the Road where I will be chronicling stupidity I see on Indian roads. Here is first one: I didn’t witness this, but it happened as a friend narrated it, on the Bangalore Outer Ring Road (a six-land road inside the city) near Doddanekkundi. There was this guy riding a Honda Activa scooter…

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Driving Like Dummies 4 – Story of the Indian Car Buyer Part 1

vadakkus13 years ago10 years ago012 mins

A car is a must today. No doubt about that, especially when there is little effective public transportation in India. But the car ownership funda in our society is totally warped with “emotional” or perceived factors outweighing the logical and rational ones. India does not have a “driving culture” or an “automotive culture” save some…

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Driving Like Dummies 2 – A Car is NOT an “Investment”

vadakkus14 years ago10 years ago014 mins

Compared to those who lived twenty years ago, us Indians of today are a pampered lot. For instance, anyone who wants to buy a car is spoiled for choice today. During those non-liberalized days when I was growing up, you couldn’t buy a car even if you had the money for there were only the…

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Driving Like Dummies 1 – Traffic in India

vadakkus14 years ago10 years ago112 mins

India’s roads and driving culture are one for the books. You will be hard-pressed to find a place anywhere on earth where pure chaos and lawlessness prevails on the roads as so much as it does in India. Almost none of the rules that apply when driving a vehicle on public roads are followed here,…

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Of Bus Bays and Car Repairs in Bangalore – A True Story

vadakkus14 years ago10 years ago713 mins

Bangalore is well known for its WTF traffic and crumbling infrastructure, and everyone in the city with a vehicle will have their share of stories of woe to tell. The other day it was my turn, an incident which would ruin my entire weekend and the next Monday, set me back by around Rs.10000, cause…

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