Shantanu Shekhar....

The rich men with the big bucks and shiny, expensive cars are almost always being chauffeured around. They don’t realise that they are missing out on something – the real joy of owning a car is to drive it. Well, of course, if you don’t drive properly, then even a thing as pleasurable as driving can seem as an arduous task. To drive a car smoothly, here are a few little tips that I think will come in handy. (I am supposing a right-hand drive vehicle, so please modify the tips as required if you… Continue

If you had all the money in the world, which car would you buy? Well, I’m sure each of us has his/her own dream car, but in the end if your car doesn’t figure in the list I am about to describe, then you probably don’t know much about cars. Let’s take a look at the best sets of wheels that money (and you need a lot of money for buying these) can buy. The car on the top of the list, the… Continue

The Euro Cup this year has seen Les Blues head back without even crossing the first hurdle. Boasting of players of the quality of Thierry Henry, Frank Ribery and Nicolas Anelka, France had been pegged as fourth likely to win by the bookies. Most of the pundits had given them a real chance of repeating their heroics of Euro 2000. However, it all came crumbling down - a stalemate with Romania followed… Continue

I have held back till now from putting forth my views on arguably the second-most watched sporting tournament in the world. Now it's the business end of the competition, and we have four teams in contention - not all of which might have been expected to be contesting the semifinals. Let's take a look at the contenders and the pretenders, and how they have fared thus far. Prior to the tournament, most of the pundi… Continue

A friend of mine once said to me, 'Just imagine what it would be like if you made all the cars parked at this very moment join mainstream traffic in the city. Leave no car parked or stationary.' Well, I said to myself, there won't even be any breathing space left on the roads - utter chaos! What if you had to park them all at the same time?

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