There are two ways in which you can get to know your car really well. The first one requires two buckets of clean water, micro fiber cloths, pH neutral shampoo and gentle time to hand wash your car. It is only then that you become acutely aware of all her surface complexities. From afar, her[…]
it is lust, it is torturous And I’m aiming right at you
It is unbelievable and incredibly humbling that I am getting to experience this feeling again. I now know twice what it feels to yearn intensely and then on nonchalant summer day actually get what you want. What started in a Tata Motors library and ended in a Lotus, began again in the Porsche museum. And[…]
Regret crosses the finish line for another lap Seven years ago, on this day, I bought a car that I had dreamed of since I was 17 years old. I had read about this British car maker slash race car manufacturer and his incessant love for small, lightweight and remarkably agile cars. His philosophies had[…]
he asked her to take him back to the start ‘I have met someone.’ she said decidedly to her friends over dinner. Her friends squealed asynchronously. They all looked at each other with raised eyebrows and a variety of facial contortions that could only be considered excitement. They hadn’t expected this news at all. For[…]
The rightful owner It wasn’t her fault that it took so long. I struggled to teach her everything right. It began with how she perceived differently. I noticed the signs, the neighboring lanes and the oncoming obstacles. I could anticipate the behavior of the beings around us and yet she seemed blind to the obvious.[…]
I am not drowning enough For not being an athlete, I sure do have all the symptoms of being one. My feet are hard caked. My toe nails are doubled up. I have had an ACL repaired. And I seem to hurt in the same places like long distance runners do, although, I haven’t even come[…]
In 2003 I proclaimed the rebirth of Detroit. This was primarily induced by the release of the gorgeous Ford GT to celebrate Ford’s centenary. The Ford GT harped strongly back to the glory years at Le Mans in 1966 and thereafter. The timeless story of the GT40 convinced me that the city I so desperately[…]
the ground we covered On our first wedding anniversary together, we chose Nashville over Florida. We chose to drive rather than fly. We spent the day at a National Park and rather than a spa. Along the green river, before a cave exploration hike, I gifted her pendant and then we changed from our hiking[…]
