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21st Century Employee

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I catch a line from the movie “Into the wild” as – Career is a 20 th century invention . As much as it hits the brain cell, no wonder about its truthfulness. World is divided between developed, developing and under-developed countries. Thinkers and philosophers have interpreted the world and tried to understand the society in their own way. May be some of the words like Capitalism, socialism, communism, blah-blah-ism make some sense to you. Indian fabric is slowly turning towards Industrialization. What does that mean? 100 years back, Indians used to live in joint families. There would be one patriarch who would rule their large family. Agriculture was the main source of income. Population exploded. Lands were divided and distributed in ownership. Machine were invented. Productivity was trended. People started to move out of their joint families. Urban societies grew in size and started to become the concentrated economic centers. Last 50 years in India, there is an increa...

Week 1 – Meteor 350

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It was a long held dream to have my own Royal Enfield. Back when I was a child, bullet would amaze me in the roads & it has this rowdy feel attached with it. I had fallen in love with the RE’s Thunderbird model in 2017 when I first rode it. Due to some of my own reasons, I never purchased it. Thereafter came a long career gap of study and the plan remained in hang. I talk on my own behalf and here is what I specifically feel. 20s-30s is the golden period of our lives. We have the most energy. We are optimistic. We are adventurous. We have the gut feel that we could do anything. Cruising on road for a long ride needs to be supported by your body and your mind. Do we recall a season of the Friend’s web series, when Chandler, Ross & Joey talks about how is it to be a 30 year old? You like to relax and sleep early. In short, get your own bike as soon as you feel that you are craving it deeply. Think not much… It's been the end of the week one. Whenever I see my ...

First ride - 340KM!

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This blog is about my first long ride experience in my new Meteor 350. It was a week back when I received the bike. In the first 6 days’ time I had completed 150 km of running. It was only for office related work. I had been looking forward to go on a ride since some days.  How much distance it is to start with was a question to me. I live along the western lines of Mumbai. Since it was the last day of the year, I was expecting traffic in the Mumbai-Pune highway. Recently, I also caught up many news related to traffic in that belt. I decided to take a different route as in picture below.  Okay. I was not very confident how much I would be able to ride. I had several checks with me. I was completely aware of the idea that bike is new & I should not drive it more than 60kmph of speed. Also, during the bike purchase I had not taken some accessories like leg guard and sump guard which now I understand are very important safeguards. Two other things are han...