In Delhi, I met a lady called Anita, who had sold her car around 10 years ago and now cycles around instead. She told me that with her work­place and home not too far from each other, she man­ages on two wheels most of the time. And this too, in Delhi! She said some­thing else that […]

The sec­ond edi­tion of Girls on the Run (we had the first one last year) organ­ised by Run­ner Girls India was held on March 28, 2010. The GOTR is a series of run­ning events and the aim is to increase their fre­quency. This time around we had Decathlon, Kalenji Club, Forum Value Mall and OnMo­bile as […]

A few days ago, a cyclist was turned away from the Leela Hotel’s main gate to a side park­ing lot on the road. He was there to attend a con­fer­ence when his “hum­ble” cycle did not pass the “high secu­rity stan­dards” of the hotel. He refused, of course, (even I would!) the secu­rity guard’s suggestion […]

This guy’s going to be get­ting a lot of calls for sure. Meet Sam­son, an auto dri­ver from Chen­nai, who has his own web­site, and incred­i­bly (yes, yes!) also turns on the meter! When I think Chen­nai and auto dri­ver, my mind wan­ders to a jour­ney we under­took a few years ago — my sis­ter and I. […]

It was a dif­fer­ent expe­ri­ence in Mum­bai this time around – we played tourists to the hilt. When you live in a city, I think you tend to miss a lot of things – fine details you don’t really notice as you rush about your daily work. Like that lovely Church behind Fort where I worked for a year or so – why had I never seen it? The beau­ti­ful old her­itage build­ings in Kalaghoda and Fort – never looked at them closely before. I had lit­tle time to stand and stare back then.

Day 3: Has­san to Madik­eri A day filled with scenic routes but a lot of climbs and pretty tir­ing too in the end. It turned out to be a long day for me. The best part was early on when we had the Gorur dam stretch opened up for us to cycle on — around […]

On Day 1, we made it from Ban­ga­lore to Mysore via the National High­way. It wasn’t the most pleas­ant stretch in terms of traf­fic, but I was just glad that I could get this part over with. With trucks and other high speed vehi­cles all mov­ing at break neck speeds and honk­ing con­tin­u­ously, it’s not really con­ducive to cyclists. But after lunch on the road, we reached our des­ti­na­tion — the com­fort­able Hotel Regaalis and even got some time to take in some sight­see­ing in the evening.

On Sun­day, 25 Octo­ber 2009, join a bunch of us for Bangalore’s first women’s only run­ning event — brought to you by Run­ner­GirlsIn­dia (RGI)! Come and run or walk with us! This Girls on the Run event is part­nered with YLG Salon and Spa; each par­tic­i­pant will receive a YLG Gift Voucher too. We would love […]