After hopping off the train, I headed straight to the workshop, which was conveniently right behind the station. My bike wasn’t ready just yet, but Inder — the bike guru — was hard at work. Knowing my bike was in Inder’s hands felt reassuring. My last servicing fiasco in Pune still haunts me: the servicing gone wrong, had me […]
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Distance Covered, Destination Unreached I wake up at 3 AM — an hour later than planned. Groggy and unwilling, the anxiety that keeps me restless all night has now traded places with sleep, which stubbornly refuses to let me go. I pull myself up, get ready as quickly as I can, and step out into a world
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It was just another day on the bike tour, with the weather mirroring yesterday’s gloomy vibe — cloudy skies and intermittent rain, as if the heavens were having a quiet conversation. The landscape stretched out before us: distant mountains and verdant fields, young paddy crops swaying gently in the wind. The railway tracks ran parallel to the
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a Traveler in making The City of Dreams (and the People from Heaven) A train stopped at platform no 16 of Mumbai railway station and a 20-something young adult got down with 100s of other passengers. ‘Platform no 16’ intrigued him. Coming from a small town he had never seen such a big railway station with
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