Today the Porky Bastards Motorcycle Club grew by three – Chris Manners, Parthasarathy Srinivasan and Vaibhav Naik, all my colleagues at 3D Systems. We went for a ride to Tillari Ghat. The Facebook event we created read: A quick half day ride from Mapusa to Tillari Ghat, the absolutely worst…
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On 4th August 2013 the Porky Bastards Motorcycle Club added five new members – Julian D’Souza, Diana Souza, Rohan Andrade, Juhan Rodrigues and Regnar Fernandes. The six of us rode to Vijaydurg Fort on four bikes – three Royal Enfields and one KTM Duke. We started from the Mapusa bus…
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I spent last week at the 3D Systems headquarters in Rock Hill, South Carolina. Normally I wrap up all my work in the week so that I can use the week ends to travel from and to India. However, due to the way my meetings were scheduled this time I…
July 22 2013 / 1 Comment / Read More »
With the aim of finding the rider in me I bought a Royal Enfield Thunderbird 350 in August last year. See “The Search Begins“. This is how the bike looked back then. This is what it looks like today. Save the chassis and the engine, I think I’ve replaced just…
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This weekend Cafe Bullet Goa had its annual ride to Kumbharli, a beautiful place in the Sahyadri mountain range half way between Panaji and Mumbai. This was the planning meeting for the big annual ride to the Himalayas in a couple of months. There were 11 riders from Goa and…
April 21 2013 / No Comment / Read More »A Father’s Day Realization
Today it hit my wife and me that our two boys, aged 7 and 3, have never traveled by bus…
June 20 2011 / 5 Comments / Read More »Traffic In India
This picture pretty much sums up how we drive in India. Vehicles, people, cattle, etc. all moving together in harmony.…
June 19 2011 / No Comment / Read More »Stuff I Once Did
The other day I actually went to the post office and posted a letter. Then later that day I went…
June 4 2011 / 1 Comment / Read More »For The Love Of Bhaje
I returned back from work this evening with an overwhelming urge to eat some bhaje. That too from Sawantwadi, some…
March 19 2013 / No Comment / Read More »Vacation In Dubai
The last time I went offline (as in no email, SOS calls only) was when I went on my honeymoon…
January 26 2013 / 2 Comments / Read More »Drive To Tillari
This weekend I took my family for an aimless drive to the Tillari ghat. Here are some pictures. On the…
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