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A wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone

A wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone

I am a combination of three different personalities and, therefore, not easy to please. You’d better believe this as I have an endorsement from Specky, my wife… and she isn’t someone who will air an opinion just for a pat on her back or a few wolf-whistles. She told me once, ‘You have an imagination...
The impressions

The impressions

As I walked by a pile of garbage lying unattended in an otherwise clean market in Delhi, I heard a well-to-do woman say, ‘We Indians are instinctively unhygienic.’ I stopped, looked at her with a smile that clearly said ‘hear me out’. She instinctively stopped and her body language said ‘I’m ready to hear your...
Volvo XC60: Evolution redefined!

Volvo XC60: Evolution redefined!

Where and how we met is what is vital… we met in Bhopal during the NDTV-Volvo XC60 Adventure Challenge 2014 and that is where I fell in love with a 40 L car! So the first good thing about the XC60 is that it makes you fall in love with it. The rest of the...
Names never die

Names never die

‘Prem,’ he said, by way of introducing himself. I smiled. It isn’t every day that you bump into a 20-something who has a name that makes you smile first and then look at the person. This Prem, by the way, is an ace mountaineer, has climbed the Mount Everest and a number of other peaks...