Thursday 16 March 2023

Tenacity Rejuvenation Drive - 2. Leaving Pune on 2013-03-10


Ready to embark on a 7,263 kms solo drive, codenamed Tenacity Rejuvenation 2 from Pune (RIBM, near Katraj) on 10th March 2013 at 5 am with an objective to combine hectic work and pleasure. 
Route for Day 1: 
Pune - Ahmednagar - Aurangabad - Jalna - Sindhkhed Raja - Mehekar - Malegaon - KaranjaLad - Salod - Pulgaon - Wardha - Nagpur (750 kms). 
Checked-in at Hotel Sunny International, near Lokmat Square, Nagpur at 7.30 pm. 
My mission was to prove a point and show how a new generation University affiliated/ AICTE approved business school needs to be promoted and administered. 
Even after the hotel check-in at Nagpur at 7.30 pm, more back to back meetings continued upto 1.30 am. 
People keep asking me why am I always seen in formal attire even on super long drives spread over many days. Ever since August 1985 most of my long drives are for work wherein I need to meet people with different demographic profiles. They range from the automobile mechanic bathed in engine oil and grease to truck drivers to farmers to retailers to corporate honchos to school/ college students to school/ college Principals. I have no other choice but to be formally attired right from say 5 am to 12 midnight with back to back meetings and simultaneously covering 750+ kms during the day!
Note the date and time of click, viz. 2013-03-10 4:54 hrs which was during the famously coded Tenacity Rejuvenation - 2 / TR - 2 drive. 
Remembering the long drives crisscrossing India for work (starting and ending in Pune everytime) in my Mahindra Scorpio Micro Hybrid (Special Edition) in 2012-13 which resulted in the rollout of #IndianRoadie in May 2013. 
I used to be mighty happy with my unbeatable #MightyMuscularScorpio / #MahindraScorpio. 

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* Tenacity Rejuvenation 
* Tenacity Rejuvenation_2_Drive (snippets) 
* Indian Roadie Recollections

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