Symbolic events, Smart Cities and dumb infrastructure designed to fail, and road safety campaigns meant to simply ‘check a box’ without strong measures and result-oriented outcomes – these are some of the uncomfortable facts that we need to speak about.
Edward Pinheiro, a Mumbai resident is on a mission with his initiative #SaveTheCyclist to mobilise the cycling community towards sensitising drivers and reducing road conflicts, collisions and casualties. We spoke to him to learn more about his cycling journey and long term vision.
Today morning I read a sad news of a runner being killed by a speeding car at Worli in Mumbai. This is not the first time that someone doing a fitness activity has lost his/her life in an car accident. It has become dangerous to go cycling and running even in the early morning hours. Drunken driving is prevalent in […]
Errrrrrrrrrrr….. Smash! Escaped. After the day’s work, a mosquito buzzed next to my ear when I went to bed. I attacked the intruder with full force, missing the target in the dark, only to smash my face making cheeks red.
Together Everyone Achieves More. Together Everyone Avoids More. If we are discussing responsibility, then the first statement is our focus. The corporate mantra of teamwork and its advantages are familiar to most of us and we do bring-in to practice to a large extent in our work, business and even otherwise.
‘West Coast Riders’, a cycling club in Mumbai were cycling from Bandra to Fort area on a Sunday morning. The group took a planned halt at National Association for Blind, at Worli for the visually impaired cyclists to join the group with their tandem cycles. A friendly dog approached the group and mixed around with them.
Life does not bargain with death. It can never afford to do so. Death will always have the upper-hand. We are susceptible of getting summoned anytime. And we must respect its natural dominant position.
