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Bike ride in Thailand

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Why Thailand? I n January 2025, I did a “South India” trip on a motorbike conducted by “ Goodwind Moto Tours ”. I immensely liked it. They announced a ride in Thailand amongst other destinations like Greece, Morocco etc. ( https://nsmcyberdude-thoughts.blogspot.com/2025/01/my-first-long-motorbike-ride.html ) I’m a conservative guy, after South India, thought Thailand would be a good choice. They drive on the same side as we do in India. The traffic is more disciplined and roads much better. So, it had to be my first “outside of India” biking trip and I enthusiastically signed up. Another reason was that I had neglected my health (particularly exercising) and my Son-in-law, Ashwin said “you are goal driven, sign up for some adventure and you will work for that, hence get back the muscle strength”. Do we really need a reason to ride a bike? Well, needed a legit one! Physical fitness 2025 was a hectic year of international travel for me from work point and I hadn’t got much time to exerci...
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National High School (NHS) Basavanagudi

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It will be 50 years since I joined this revered institution.   The year was 1975, and during those days we used to have a public exam (conducted by the education department of the government—as I remember, at a district level) for seventh standard it was called the LS or “Lower Secondary” exam.   The school that I studied till then, had classes up to 7th and, for pursuing higher secondary education, we had to seek admission to another school. The Fear   Fear is a strong motivator, and my mother used that effectively. We had the best of institutions—the National High School or NHS, where only the very best got admitted. At the bottom of that list of schools was a school called “The Fort High School” (or that’s what we were made to believe, not that it was bad), a government-run school which was near to NHS and on the same road (more towards the Bangalore Fort and hence the name).   So, my mother literally “made me an offer that I couldn’t refuse”—NHS or...
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Location: Basavanagudi, Bengaluru - 560004, Shankarapura, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560004, India
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