A ride to remember.

(From The Times of India)

Baroda Times correspondent Manju Ramanan decided to check out her cycling skills when autowallahs and even truckwallahs refused to ferry people to work...

With an auto rickshaw strike in place and all petrol driven vehicles gone kaput, the only option I hit upon to reach office was to cycle down. But with the last cycling experience a decade ago, I thought I would have to take the U-turn home and be the butt of jokes. When the watchman was hesitant in lending me his 'gents-cycle', I fooled him with 'I'm just going to cycle down to see water' …