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A broken justice system
Increasingly, rape cases have seen an outpouring of public anger where the demand for death has reached a high pitch. Only reforms in the police and judicial systems can help No matter what problems one may have with fairness of social media platforms like Twitter, posts here do make up for...
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Who will win the ICOTY 2020?
13 December 2019 | Kushan Mitra -
The ABC of reviewing cars
06 December 2019 | Kushan Mitra -
Looking ahead at 2020
29 November 2019 | Kushan Mitra -
The rising tide
25 November 2019 | Kushan Mitra -
‘Merger of PSU banks hard but necessary step’’
22 November 2019 | Kushan Mitra -
Back to the future
22 November 2019 | Kushan Mitra -
Audi launches eighth-generation A6 in India
25 October 2019 | Kushan Mitra
The Gujarati Expedition
From the Statue of Unity to the Sabarmati Ashram, taking in Gujarat’s incredible historical heritage in between, The Pioneer goes on an incredible voyage of discovery through India’s westernmost state with this year’s bestselling new Sports Utility Vehicle Gujarat is hardly the first state in India you think of when you...
Decaffeinated
The Maruti-Suzuki S Presso is not the prettiest car launched in the recent past. But will this ugly duckling become a swan when it comes to sales? Aesthetics is a deeply individualistic thing, but even then there are certain things, cars, buildings, watches and gadgets that fit into the pretty or...
Telematic future
The big thing for carmakers today is how your vehicle stays connected When I was a young man, I used to sneak away in my mother’s Maruti 800 on more than a couple of occasions. If my mother knew what all I did to her car or in her car, she...
Wildfire syndrome
There is so much junk floating on the internet and social media that it is our civic duty to clean it up and follow the way citizens rescued Mumbai’s Versova beach Over the past week, I must have received several forwarded messages on WhatsApp and other messaging services. Some of them...
Changing the automatic story
Indian car buyers might be purchasing fewer cars but they are all increasingly automatics. Now Datsun is bringing in an affordable CVT on its Go and Go+ In a country as large and diverse as India, with hundreds of languages, dialects and cultures, it is often difficult to find a common...
Ferdinand Piech, a man, a legend
There have been a few other automotive engineers and executives who managed what Piech did in the modern era The automotive history has several notable figures, many of whom gave their names to eponymous brands — Ford, Honnda, Toyota (Toyoda, actually) and many others, including Ferdinand Porsche. The last was a...
Rising the slowdown
The automotive and allied industries power the Indian economy and a 30 per cent sales slowdown ought to be taken seriously Eloquent arguments have been made by several economists aligned with this Government about why the automotive sector should not get a tax break, primarily being that it would set a...
