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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 8 – Diesel vs Petrol

vadakkus12 years ago10 years ago519 mins

When it comes to vehicles and general Indian populace, the saying “Little knowledge is a dangerous thing” acquires new dimensions in its meaning. Forget treating 800cc cars as a status symbol and defining masculinity as per your presence and command on the road and your ability to make all the World fall at your feet…

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Bollywood, Intolerance, Misogyny and the Indian Society

vadakkus13 years ago8 years ago322 mins

Another molestation news has created headlines. This time it was a minor girl who stepped out of a bar who was stripped and molested for around half an hour in full public view by a mob of around 30 men in Guwahati. A news crew recorded the entire incident which spun off a branch of…

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Driving Like Dummies 6 – “Of Course I Know How to Drive!”

vadakkus13 years ago10 years ago017 mins

What is the big deal about driving a car? A car is not much different from that 100cc bike we have been riding since we hit puberty. Sure, it is a bit wider, has two more wheels and position, size and shape of the levers, pedals and such controls change a bit. But it is…

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Driving Like Dummies 5 – Story of the Indian Car Buyer Part 2

vadakkus13 years ago10 years ago011 mins

For many, especially the neo-liberated Indian in small town India, buying a car is a dream come true, the process of acquiring it is a dream process come true and car salesmen are dream merchants. Whatever people might say, I believe that globalization and capitalism have liberated us. It it were not for it, you…

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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 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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