Chapter 2: Karol Bagh, Dashboard Gods & Bittu Di Gaddi Missed the beginning? The Great Indian Drive started with Ambassador, Premier Padmini and the wonderful theatre of getting somewhere. Read Chapter 1 here. The Maruti 800 did something no Indian car had managed before. It simply worked. It started every morning without persuasion, steered where…
Chapter 1: बुरी नज़र वाले, तेरा मुँह काला. What was India’s first anti-theft device? “Buri Nazarwale Tera Muh Kala.” Long before motivational quotes colonised LinkedIn and Instagram, this was probably the most widely read sentence on Indian roads. It stared back at us from the rear of lumbering trucks, usually accompanied by dangling lemons and…
How an Entire Generation Graduated Without a Syllabus Every generation has its coming-of-age story. Ours didn’t come from therapists, influencers, dating apps or relationship podcasts. It came from movie posters, dog-eared paperbacks, cassette tapes and a VCR with a permanently overworked pause button. Long before the internet decided what we should watch, there were only…
