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  1. When summer vacation meant Kozhikode

    Posted by Rama Menon
    / January 25, 2013 /
    When my cousin brother posted on Facebook that Kozhikode Railway Station was celebrating its 125th anniversary, I felt nostalgic and went back in time to my childhood in the 70s and 80s when summer holidays always meant a trip to my ancestral home in Kozhikode. Those days there was no direct train to...

  2. Don’t make bad times worse, says King of Good Times

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    / August 9, 2012 /
    Kingfisher Airlines Chairman Vijay Mallya’s open letter to his employees  As you may have read in the media, I have said that our Company will be re-capitalised whether the Government changes the current FDI policy or not. I have also expressed my anguish and sadness publicly about unpaid salaries. If...

  3. Autofocussed

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    / July 27, 2012 / 5 Comments
    I have always held the belief that by and large, auto-rickshaw walas across India are goons, thugs, louts, bullies and a few other unmentionable things which I can’t bring myself to utter in public. But every time I make a trip to Bangalore or thereabouts, this conviction of mine takes...

  4. #ChennaiTrafficWoes @venkrek

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    / July 21, 2012 /
    Editor’s note : Venkat Parthasarathy used Twitter to vent his frustrations on the Chennai traffic this morning. Using the hashtag #Chennaitrafficwoes, @venkrek tweeted about different aspects of driving in Chennai. Is the Chennai Traffic Police following @venkrek? Coming up: Chennai Traffic observations… Hashtag alert#ChennaiTrafficWoes Most MTC buses, Autos, Cabs, Cars,...

  5. Hyderabad Metro deadline : July 2017

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    / July 6, 2012 /
    The clock has started ticking for the Hyderabad Metro Rail project. July 5, 2012 has been marked as day 1 of the project, with a five-year deadline set for completing the project. Which means by July 5, 2017, Hyderabad’s metro rail should be completely on track. The metro rail in...

  6. Hyderabad to Chennai

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    / June 28, 2012 / 1 Comment
    It has been four weeks since I arrived in Chennai from Hyderabad, with expectations of some real metropolitan life. I had heard of the highly disciplined traffic in Delhi and Mumbai and expected Chennai to be no less and, yes I have experienced some perfect lane driving during my past...

  7. Kerala Airways to connect Kerala with the Gulf?

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    / June 23, 2012 /
    After Malayalees in the Gulf bore the brunt of the Air India strike by having to pay through their nose to buy tickets on private airlines during the summer, the Kerala government has once again mooted the idea of `Kerala Airways’. Another proposal to make the Gulf closer to home...

  8. Forcing a `sick’ Maharaja to fly

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    / May 8, 2012 /
    Air India is sick. Albeit unofficially. Because Ajit Singh ka dil hai ki maanta nahin. About 160 pilots called in sick this morning, all of them suffering from a range of health disorders, ranging from headache to dizziness to stomach ache to toe ache to palm ache and cried off...

  10. Hyderabad waits for the Metro experience

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    / May 2, 2012 / 3 Comments
    Ask any Hyderabadi about the Hyderabad Metro Rail and he would most likely tell you that it is quintessentially Hyderabadi. Not on time ! Indeed, almost in keeping with the city’s notorious chalta hai attitude, the metro rail too is taking its own sweet time chugging into Hyderabad. First Satyam...

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