Sonu Singham steering a Volvo bus in HP with total ease

The gentleman who is widely recognized by the name of Sonu Singham on social media drives a mighty Volvo bus mainly in the Delhi to Bir Billing (HP) route. 

Watch how he steers the bus with absolute ease and maturity on winding roads in the hills of North India, viz. Himachal Pradesh. 

Although I have not met him in person, nevertheless, he appears to be a driver who's always High On Cognition. 

His Art And Science Of Driving is a perfect lesson in Fine Driving Gyanology.

Say No To Led Headlights

Headlights are a frequent topic of discussion in hundreds of car owners groups/ online car brand owners clubs or forums. 

Most queries are worded as follows: 

"The OE headlights of my car don't glow sufficiently bright after dark. I get blinded by the headlights of oncoming cars/ trucks/ buses. I want to replace the stock bulbs with LED. Please recommend LED bulbs of reputed brands." 

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My answer: 

* I have been into daylight and night driving well before attaining the legal driving age sitting on my dad's lap. The baby steps in driving a car (1960-61 make Standard Super 10 Deluxe) possibly started in or around 1972-73. 

* I bought for myself a Premier Padmini with some financial assistance provided by 'baba' on 1986-08-16 exactly 1 year 4 days after completion of my highly satisfying innings with Castrol India (then, Indrol Lubricants). 

* 4 lane roads with median dividers were an alien infrastructure in India till Atal Behari Vajpayee ji's Golden Quadrilateral started getting ready to roll on. 

* Prior to that it was only one 'parivaar' who kept selling dreams to gullible Indians about banane parega, karne parega, sochne parega while India kept driving on so called double lane narrow bumpy National Highways, cumulatively not an inch wider than the 1.5 lanes we are familiar with in 2023. 

* Driving in 4th gear for 10 kms at a stretch at nothing more than 65 - 70 kms per hour was sheer bliss even upto as recent as mid 1990s. 

* Never ever have I seen my father changing to a brighter headlight in his Standard Super 10 Deluxe vis-a-vis the OE specifications in his car. 

* I too have never ever upgraded to brighter headlights in my Premier Padmini, Maruti 800, Maruti Esteem LXi, Maruti Esteem VXi, Mahindra Scorpio Vlx Spl Edition till August 2023. Btw, I own a 2011 make VW Vento Highlne presently. 

* I have strongly believed that if I can't see the roads properly, it's my physical disability. It's not the car headlights which are to be blamed. I need to get my eyes checked by a competent eye specialist. The MNCs and Indian brands of car manufacturers in India don't employ I-know-it-all 'teniyas' to roll out cars from the assembly line. 

* Being a sales and marketing professional to the core (being responsible for directly earning revenue for my employer enabling them to payout salaries to hundreds or thousands of more employees) and add to it my upbringings, EMPATHY runs in my blood. 

I can't afford to be an hypocrite and upgrade to high wattage halogen or LED headlights in my car to blind others simply because I get frequently blinded by oncoming cars atleast 5 mtrs away on a different lane altogether and separated by a median divider with growth of shrubs on a NH. 

And changing over to LED while driving within Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Delhi, Pune, Hyderabad, Bhubaneswar, Raipur, Nagpur is unthinkable. 

Therefore, let me scream out to fellow roadies "DO NOT DO TO OTHERS WHAT YOU DO NOT WANT OTHERS TO DO TO YOU"! 

* Say No To Led Headlights

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Kms Of India - Construction worker hung baby on a sling

Spotting a lady building construction worker with her child hanging from a sling on her body somewhere in West Bengal or Karnataka or Punjab, stopping by, interacting with her through verbal and non-verbal communication, understanding her compulsions, hearing her language, getting to know more about her life, etc, etc is what makes driving immensely interesting for me, Deep Banerjee, Founder of Indian Roadie and the associated forums. 

For me, road trips are not just about travelling from Place A to Place B and driving like a zombie at night or day at 80 or 140 or 150 kms per hour. For me, irrespective of how often I have driven on a road/ route, every kilometre is interesting for me. Road trips for me are just not about crunching kilometres on the odometer. 

In a huge country like India with diverse culture and socio-economic demographics and psychographics, every kilometre of India can be interesting and a learning process provided one has the propensity and intellect to spot those. The lady in the picture lives to work evolve enjoy life. 

This is her profession. She too laughs, cries, dreams of a better tomorrow. Irrespective of my presence, life must go on for her. 

For a matured roadie of the likes in IndianRoadie (and associated forums), road trips are not just about driving 500 kms or 2500 kms to watch the rising or setting sun, to watch the snow capped peaks of mountains or shifting dunes of the desert or whatever. Groove your child, spouse, partner, co-passengers to learn and appreciate these. 

Do you truly agree or don't agree with my viewpoints? 

Comment AGREE if you agree. 

Comment DON'T AGREE if you don't agree. 

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* Live To Work Evolve Enjoy, 

* Kms Of India, 

* Kilometres Of India, 

* Every Kilometre Of India Is Interesting, 

* Only While Travelling By Road In India, 

* Fine Driving Gyanology