Travel means comfort movement for me. I prefer shorts, a Tee shirt, sports shoes with socks or a croc with/without socks. Hence I was unsurprised to meet and greet Signo co-promoter Gagan Chaturvedi and his Fleet Head S D Sharmaji at the gate of my residence (Green Arch, Greater Noida)…

Out of the blue, I found a lengthy message in my Linkedin inbox recently. The writer, a fleet-owning transporter (sizeable at that) based out of Gurugram, asked a pertinent question: despite being nice and good to truck drivers, why they don’t reciprocate but cheat? This is a valid question I…

Sachin Chauhan alerted me well in advance that Akhilesh Jaiswal is unlikely to please me with vegetarian lunch at his dhaba on the road to Adani mines in Singrauli, a coal belt area in North eastern Madhya Pradesh. It was past three, and we (Sachin and Syed Kausar Hussain) completed…

Measurement is quintessential to assessing performance. Hence I was unsurprised to hear my co-cyclist Syed Kausar Hussain ask: “What’s your Strava reading? Mine, 83km.” Strava, for the uninitiated, is an app that keeps track of kilometers/miles walked, rode, swam, ran, or whatever. …

Circa 1990, it was the last time I shook hands with a Chairman of an oil marketing company. Sri Raj Kumar Gajree of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) over a sumptuous breakfast at his south Bombay (SoBo) residence. Forty-three years later, I was shaking hands and chatting with the Chairman…

Claims and counterclaims are part and parcel of any society. The tribe of truck drivers is no exception. At Dhrangadhra en route, I stopped at a tire repair shop to figure out the young Bihari Mohamed Sonu’s MO (modus operandi) that he has been performing post-Covid. He is busy performing…

Tell me, have you ever attempted to carry a bicycle with you on a train? I did, and the experience boggled my mind. Once the dye was cast to conduct Cycle Yatra-2 in Gujarat (end April-early May), preparations were made in advance except for the actual date due to the…

I’m a sucker for taglines. In the 90s, I was floored by Rediffusion-coined “When You See Color, Think of Us” tagline for Jensen & Nicholson’s paint commercials and several such advertising slogans. Cafe Coffee Day’s “A Lot Can Happen Over Coffee” has also been a favorite. Then, why should a…

Logisticians and tension are two sides of the same coin. Yet, this 1975-born cuddly Bengali babu makes one believe such an assessment is bunkum. Over a decade-long exposure to this mustache-less karamchari, he fooled me into believing that logistics is a joyful career option. Still, I am skeptical. …