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For two years in a row, the month of September has turned out to be a black month for me. In a span of last two years, I lost two good friends. In September 2023, I lost Deepangshu Dev Sarmah. He was the Founding Ed...

Monsoon is already on its way to India, bringing much-needed relief from the intense summer heat. However, the monsoon season also comes with its own set of challenges, particularly for drivers.

Electronics for the automotive sector have been playing the most significant role in the electric vehicle adoption process in the Indian automotive sector.

When I realised that the Indian government was planning to make the recently concluded Bharat Mobility Global Expo an annual event, I was aghast.

Out of the blue, I got a call from a good old friend of mine Amit Gulati of AGM Technologies.He was a modifier of cars, in the sense he could transform the interiors of a car into one that resembled the private room...

In the ever-evolving landscape of automotive manufacturing, one cannot overlook the environmental challenges that persist. Mumbai's recent decision to retire its iconic red diesel-run double-decker buses, in service...

In the vast and diverse tapestry of India's sporting landscape, a captivating transformation is unfolding, akin to a resounding revolution that has set the nation agog. At the centre stage of this sporting metamorph...

Steelbird Helmets perfectly cater to their preferences, offering helmets that not only match their machines but also provide superior protection.

Electric passenger vehicles (PV) today form a miniscule share of total passenger vehicles sales in the country today. Internal combustion (IC) engine cars and utility vehicles constitute the major share of PV sales ...

The U.S. and India have different driving rules. India is a right-driving country (vehicles with the steering wheel on the right side of the car), but don’t let that fool you into believing you won’t run into plenty...

I love it when a random auto journalist in India writes in his column that a high speed car needs to be driven on a race track. Auto journalists are typically that breed of professionals who “run with the hares and ...

What began as a personal interaction platform of sorts has taken on an extremely complex form, more elaborate then Chinese whispers. I call it a ‘FILTY’ world. So what exactly is this world? It’s just a word I coi...

Capt Jayant Joshi along with Lt Col AS Batth was doing a routine practice exercise in their Army Aviation Rudra Advanced Light Helicopter at the Ranjit Sagar Dam near Pathankot when it crashed into the deep waters o...

But strangely, I realised there were humans who loved us. But I wondered whether it was superficial. If they loved us so much, why did they not take us to their homes and adopt us? All I got was a pat on my head so...

In the good old days, some of us used to pick up the morning #newspaper to read the latest news, whether it was on #politics, #sports, local development or #business. The more voracious readers amongst us spent thei...

As I was growing up I loved watching Hindi movies. During the 1980s and 1990s, and perhaps before that too, there was a “Bahadur” character in every other movie who always responded to his master by saying, “Jee Sha...

But all the talk of “Atmanirbhar Bharat” makes no sense if it does not bring in the moolah for the investor. In the early days of post Independence making moolah was very difficult because of the “red-tapism” and co...

I saw the #socialmedia tsunami coming but could never fathom its intensity. It was around 2004-2005 when platforms like #youtube , #twitter , #facebook , etc were born. Much later #instagram came into being. #tiktok...

Everybody in the auto journalism world had to adapt to new rules of social media, its charm, its pluses and minuses and its absolute ruthlessness amid the excitement and opportunities it offered.

A couple of decades back, #journalists were kind of independent when it came to reporting and they never had the management breathing down their necks to get moolah for their organisations. And even if they wanted...

In our pursuit to find some of the most insane auto modifications in India we have come across things which will woo you, blow your mind away as well as make you hurl a rock at the atrocities some people can commit ...

It’s easy for any tribunal, whether green or blue, to put a ban on vehicles. Earlier, as per the Motor Vehicles norms in the country, a vehicle life was put at 15 years, beyond which the vehicle needed to be get a f...

Ever since Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave a clarion call to make India clean (Swatch Bharat), there has been a flurry of activities, both genuine and fraud, trying to heed to his call. Some have honestly taken up...