They cause havoc on Indian roads :P
Friday, 22 August 2014
Beware of non-alcoholic coffee, tea & juice drinking drivers
Beware of strictly non-alcoholic, coffee or tea or juice drinking drivers.
They cause havoc on Indian roads :P
They cause havoc on Indian roads :P
Wednesday, 20 August 2014
Ladakh by VW Jetta in June 2013
The Ground Clearance (GC) of cars for a drive to Ladakh is invariably a topic of discussion for all road fanatics like us.
Indian Roadie, Vikram Virulkar (Facebook @ vikram.virulkar) shared his experience of driving to Ladakh in his friend's VW Jetta in June 2013.
He was supposed to take a Mahindra Xylo from Baddi in HP. However, the registration of the vehicle had not come through. It was a choice between waiting 4 days in Baddi or taking the VW Jetta to Ladakh. He decided on the later. He admits that he made a horrible mistake of taking the Jetta to Ladakh because of its low GC.
His words, verbatim,
"We encountered the first set of problems related to bad roads in Zoji-la.
The road from Kargil to Leh was so smooth that one could iron a shirt on it.
The Leh - Manali road was a journey filled with horror and some hind sighted regret. Makes for some good laughs now..
We literally had to get out and throw stones into the potholes to make sure that the under body didn't hit the road.
My feet and hands went numb from exposure to the freezing water and the cold & the situation at Tanglang La top could have easily turned sour. We also managed to bring a smile to the drivers of Scorpios and trucks . Some of them waited to see how we overcame some exceptionally large potholes (actually no roads)...lol.
We made it in one piece, although the car suffered some damage which was fixed easily. So all said and done, just have a good GC car for your Ladakh drive, other things will take of themselves."
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Indian Roadie, Vikram Virulkar (Facebook @ vikram.virulkar) shared his experience of driving to Ladakh in his friend's VW Jetta in June 2013.
He was supposed to take a Mahindra Xylo from Baddi in HP. However, the registration of the vehicle had not come through. It was a choice between waiting 4 days in Baddi or taking the VW Jetta to Ladakh. He decided on the later. He admits that he made a horrible mistake of taking the Jetta to Ladakh because of its low GC.
His words, verbatim,
"We encountered the first set of problems related to bad roads in Zoji-la.
The road from Kargil to Leh was so smooth that one could iron a shirt on it.
The Leh - Manali road was a journey filled with horror and some hind sighted regret. Makes for some good laughs now..
We literally had to get out and throw stones into the potholes to make sure that the under body didn't hit the road.
My feet and hands went numb from exposure to the freezing water and the cold & the situation at Tanglang La top could have easily turned sour. We also managed to bring a smile to the drivers of Scorpios and trucks . Some of them waited to see how we overcame some exceptionally large potholes (actually no roads)...lol.
We made it in one piece, although the car suffered some damage which was fixed easily. So all said and done, just have a good GC car for your Ladakh drive, other things will take of themselves."
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Pathetic state of NH34 (Kolkata - Dalkhola) in Aug 2014
Warning for those planning a drive to North Bengal.
Barring 120 - 130 odd kms, the entire stretch of 435 kms of NH34 from Kolkata to Dalkhola (via Barasat, Ranaghat, Krishnanagar, Baharampore, Malda, Raiganj) is worse than what you see in the photos clicked by me somewhere near Barajaguli (Nadia district) on 3rd Aug 2014.
I drive a Maruti Suzuki Esteem VXi and love my car a lot. The pathetic condition of the road almost made me cry.
Moreover, for several unknown reasons, one might get held up in road jams stretching between 3 - 5 kms at various places for hours together.
Barring 120 - 130 odd kms, the entire stretch of 435 kms of NH34 from Kolkata to Dalkhola (via Barasat, Ranaghat, Krishnanagar, Baharampore, Malda, Raiganj) is worse than what you see in the photos clicked by me somewhere near Barajaguli (Nadia district) on 3rd Aug 2014.
I drive a Maruti Suzuki Esteem VXi and love my car a lot. The pathetic condition of the road almost made me cry.
Moreover, for several unknown reasons, one might get held up in road jams stretching between 3 - 5 kms at various places for hours together.
Tuesday, 19 August 2014
Dense 'sal' forest between Sambalpur and Angul (Odisha)
Driving solo from Pune to Kolkata in my Mahindra Scorpio VLX Micro Hybrid Special Edition SUV, for work (a passion to develop a B-school as a Centre of Excellence in Sales & Marketing studies) & pleasure.
Dense 'sal' forest section between Sambalpur and Angul (Odisha).
On a chill winter morning in December 2012, the sun piercing through the trees was enough motivation to stop for a brief photo session.
Dense 'sal' forest section between Sambalpur and Angul (Odisha).
On a chill winter morning in December 2012, the sun piercing through the trees was enough motivation to stop for a brief photo session.
Ugadi festival
Devotees use coracles to reach a safe place to take a holy dip at the Triveni Sangama of rivers Cauvery and Kapila and Spatika sarovara at T Narsipura on Friday, 23rd March 2012 on the occasion of Ugadi
Sunday, 17 August 2014
Saturday, 16 August 2014
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