Meet The Guys Who Are Driving 5,500 Km To India's Military Borders
Maruti Suzuki presents Indiatimes Frontlines is a travelogue which is more like a pilgrimage. Trying to fight against armchair patriotism (the sort most of us are guilty of), our concern for the jawaans should not end at sharing or liking a post on Facebook. And that¡¯s precisely the point of this journey. We want to bridge the gaps in our knowledge about the lives of our jawaans. We want to learn how to do the Attari border drill, take a ride in a BSF boat in the middle of Sir Creek and play a game of football with the jawaans in Rajasthan while we're at it.
Abhishek Saksena
Abhishek is a germaphobe who drives sportscars like a grandmother. He¡¯s also dependable, a quality we hope he¡¯ll display on this journey. For the sake of this conversation, Abhishek is an out-an-out petrol head who¡¯s a lazy driver and currently ODing on the fact that we have an automatic Ertiga to take on this trip! He also has a long, painful history with the NDA and is currently obsessed with all things military.
Kabeer Sharma
Kabeer loves pineapple on his pizza, hair gel and writes emails for a living. He can be found in a corner making moderately funny jokes and pretending to know there is a method to the Indiatimes madness. Kabeer hopes to meet, interview the men on the border. In reality, he¡¯ll probably be found on top of a sand-dune looking for network so he can reply to emails.
Maruti Suzuki Ertiga
As we drive our way to some of the most dangerous borders in the world, we wanted a car that paid as much attention to utility as it does to comfort. With a compact, efficient, yet powerful engine powering us through the difficult roads and a four-speed automatic making sure we do all that in comfort, we could not have asked for a better partner in crime than the Maruti Suzuki Ertiga.
