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The temple in the hill
The Maladevi temple next to Gyaraspur is a must-visit because of its intricate sculptures. By Kushan Mitra There is no typo in the headline over here, the Maladevi temple on the top of a hill next to the town of Gyaraspur is literally carved into the hill. While we might not...
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The earliest Indians
30 January 2021 | Kushan Mitra -
Turbo Thrust
29 January 2021 | Kushan Mitra -
City of museums
28 January 2021 | Kushan Mitra -
Heliodorus’ Pillar at Vidisha
23 January 2021 | Kushan Mitra -
When size matters
22 January 2021 | Kushan Mitra -
A Great Drive
15 January 2021 | Kushan Mitra -
A rough year
01 January 2021 | Kushan Mitra
‘The recovery from the pandemic will take some time’
“We are being very careful in forecasting sales for 2021”, Tae-Jin Park, Executive Director and Chief Sales Officer, Kia Motors says quite honestly. One might find that surprising as the Korean company has made a big splash in the Indian market, their Seltos and Sonet SUV’s and Carnival MPV all...
Power to the people
Can the Nissan Magnite rewrite the Japanese brand’s fortunes in the country? First things first, let me make one thing straight, ‘introductory prices’, as well as extremely low prices of the base version of new cars, are nothing more than a ploy to get prospective car buyers into a showroom. Both...
Exciting little discovery
Compact Sedans are not meant to be exciting. Or are they? It has become rather fashionable to blame former Finance Minister P Chidambaram for a lot of things. But one thing that those of us who write about cars can rightly accuse Chidambaram of is having inadvertently given birth to the...
A big tent
Few vehicles have been so anticipated in the Indian market as the Kia Carnival has been. Not so much for the car itself but for the competition it will supposedly bring. So is it the Innova beater everyone wants it to be? The Toyota MPV in all its forms — Qualis,...
A never-ending crisis
As more details about the Boeing 737 MAX emerge, it is becoming clearer that a fair dose of arrogance pushed the American plane-maker Boeing’s internal documents, which revealed that executives mocked aviation regulators and airlines across the world, including India’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), were hugely damaging for the...
The empire strikes back
Volkswagen Group has had a torrid few years in India and across the world thanks to the ‘Dieselgate’ imbroglio. But 2020 is a big year for the carmaker and it starts with luxury brand Audi leading the charge with the Q8 SUV The first two decades of the 21st century have...
Worthy winner
The Hyundai Venue won the Indian Car of The Year (ICOTY) award for 2020 in a close contest with its cousin, the Kia Seltos At the end of it, Hyundai Venue won the ICOTY 2020 award by nine points, with scores of the 18 judges collated by Grant-Thornton. This was one...
