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Too Much Power? Really?
It’s only happened once — I walked out of a movie barely half an hour in. I’d had enough of it. The performances were fatigued and the plot was scattered. I couldn’t muster enough courage to sit all the way through.
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I Need Space. Ok, Maybe Not.
Why exactly? Are you a married guy or one in a bit of a spot in your relationship that you need more ‘space’? Space is a strange thing. If it’s too less you feel claustrophobic; if it’s too much you feel lost. And while there can’t be such a thing as the perfect space, it’s…
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Idiot Incoming?
Because you’re reading this, I assume you’re an actual person. And because you are an actual person, I assume you’ve got actual friends. Unless of course you’re Donald Trump, in which case you bribe people to say they’re your friends. Friends exist to make life whimsical. Have you ever been to a police station? I’ve…
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Bloody pain in the neck!
The influence of computers, and the digital world in general, started showing in our lives around the mid-90s. Getting a desktop computer was a huge deal in the house. Back then, clock rate of 300MHz was considered to be meteoric and the ‘Pentium’ sticker was a big flaunt item.
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A Squirrel on meth!
Been a while but I remember chasing squirrels. It was immense fun and cheerfully exhausting. I was little, and foolish. Imagine doing that now — it’d be painfully exhausting and embarrassing. I’m middle-aged, and still foolish. So I’d do it in a heartbeat!
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Best car I’ve driven? Oh God, not again!
I attended — was made to, more accurately — my fair share of social gatherings last year. Ones where your enthusiastic family elders make it socially discomforting for you by telling other equally enthusiastic elders about what you do. It’s a strange fetish.
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‘Feel’ is most important
I host a motoring show on an India-headquartered global English news channel that you might have heard of — it’s called WION. If you haven’t, do look for it on your television; you may actually like it. It’s not the typical shouty news-telling deal — the voice pitches are fairly calm, the views are balanced.
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Lighten up, guys!
I’ve been doing this a fairly long time now — this business of writing about cars (and a fair bit about bikes). Over the years, the different brands I’ve worked for helped me develop different writing styles. It ranged from casual flow of words where I’d make the readers feel like they know the team…
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BMW X5: Stupidly Good!
The first thing that caught my eye was the gear shift knob. More to the point, its crystal effect finish. The X is visible in a strange multi-dimensional way and it looks rather cool. And while we are on the topic of cool looking bits in the cabin, I’ll say that the combination of the…
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Beauty of Constant Progress
Even though I moved on from AutoX after about 5 years of captaining the team with the publication’s owner and editor, Dhruv, I’ve always been extremely close to the brand and its founding team. I still help them out on several special projects and the annual testing for the awards. It’s a title that will…
Ashish Jha 