Honest citizens face diffihuculties, and honest senior citizens.... even more so. My next marathon started because I need to renew my driving licence.

The official website told me to go to the Regional Transport Office. This was the first misinformation, as it CAN be done online.

Believing what was written, I went to the RTO, where I was given a ( Read more... )

Driving in the Sahayadri hills, in the monsoon.

The rain comes down in torrents. The clouds turn into a gray mist, which wraps its miasma on the road. I drive the car past roaring waterfalls, which have gathered strength with the downpours. The windshield feels as if it's made of ground glass.

The tail lights of the cars ahead wink redly.

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My driving licence expires on 22 Oct '19 (My 65th birthday falls on 23 Oct '19 ( Read more... )

Day before yesterday (22nd June, 2016) my driving licence (along with many other cards and quite a lot of cash, but that's another story) was stolen ( Read more... )

I was with my friends, at the edge of the valley:


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Do watch till the end....I just couldn't believe it!

Thanks to prashanthchengi for showing me this, I'm sending him my gastro-enterologist's bill for the tummy-ache.

Perhaps a little sexist...but I still liked it ( Read more... )

How beautiful it is to drive through the Arsikere area.... And see the roadside trees....the Neem, the Tamarind, the Mango..... And the varieties of Ficus, Peepal, Banyan, and others, sporting different colours of leaves, from the reddish copper of the new leaves, to the bright green, and then the darker green of the mature leaves. Even the exotics ( Read more... )

Had to go to Chennai for some Orrible Essential Paperwork and got back just now. My laptop was not able to pick up on the cable internet in Chennai.

So of course...let me turn my back on LJ for just a couple of days and all you lot will post the most incredible variety of posts....I just sort of went through the posts. idahoswede and pondhopper in particular.... ( Read more... )

I feel that highway driving in India has always been hazardous, and it continues to be so. Earlier, highways were single-lane roads, and it was, obviously, dangerous having the oncoming traffic, and the oncoming headlights, coming at you under all kind of conditions...night driving, rain, and so on. One slip on the part of an oncoming vehicle could ( Read more... )