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  Author: Priyanka Krishnan, Research & Program Associate, B.MOBILE, B.PAC Co-Authors: Nayana Sharma P and Mitushee Sawarkar, Interns, B.PAC It’s World Bicycle Day 2024, and I wonder if we keep chores like bicycle and fan maintenance on the same pedestal as that of car, motorbike or air-conditioner maintenance. Maybe we are more afraid of spoiling the pricier things, which is [...]

On World Bicycle Day, I ponder upon the self-worth that we associate with vehicles owned. The vehicles that we keep on a pedestal in our hearts, have kept evolving over the decades. The bicycles brought in by the British to the Indian Subcontinent during the colonial period was a symbol of the elite and upper middle-class. Today luxury cars [...]