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  • India's population overtakes China

    According to figures released by the WPR, India's population stood at 1.417 billion at the end of 2022. Notably, China had 1.41175 billion people at the end of last year, the National Bureau of Statistics…
  • Land Rovers, Birds & Singalila

    I had fed on a regular diet of Sandakphu drive reports on Team-BHP, Phalut trek reviews on Indiahikes, sunsets over a miles-across mattress of cotton-tuft clouds, red pandas on the forests of the…
  • Your favourite luxury car brand

    My first choice is BMW because of the best engine & gearbox combinations, pleasurable-to-drive nature & excellent reliability. A very close second is Mercedes for the brand allure, styling, much improved…
  • TVS Jupiter 125 Ownership Review

    Coming to the 8.15 PS, 10.5 Nm engine, does its job pretty well, but tends to get quite noisy when I hit 60 km/h or so on the Old Mumbai-Pune Highway on my way back from work. That said, the note…
  • Grand i10 | 89,000 km review

    The first and foremost would be the routine servicing which was done at the 84k km mark. The entire cost of the job was Rs. 4935 and the regular oil and filters were changed, with nothing out of the…
  • Why I spent 40,000 on sunfilm

    The effects of the Sun Film were felt immediately and drastically. As promised the 70s did not in anyway hamper vision on the windshield, but in fact aided it quite substantially both during night…
  • BMW botches up my sunroof

    There were some issues with the sunroof so BMW agreed to replace the entire rack. The car was returned to me after multiple delays and in absolute filthy condition. Mechanically also they botched…
  • EVs: Redefining fun-to-drive?

    Not too long ago, Fun to drive was associated only with high revving japanese engines like I-Vtec or torquey CRDi Turbocharged diesels, if we talk about mass market cars. But the way today's affordable…
  • Show your wallpapers here!

    Just noticed we don’t have a dedicated single thread for wallpaper pictures! To kick this thread off, here are my current wallpapers on my laptop and my phone, with source images. The one on my…
  • On the recent, brutal layoffs...

    This phase of layoffs will also recede and we will be back to hiring sprees in a year, maybe less. What is a constant is that we in India have some of the worst income inequalities in the world and…
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