Two riders, two brains, one thesis
A spreadsheet and an auto-rickshaw walk into a city.
Twenty years ago, Vinod Achanta and Vamshi Bathini were handed the same problem — a free ambulance, the number 108, and no money to tell anyone it existed. One built the spreadsheet that proved nobody was calling. The other painted the number on the side of an auto. Neither was enough alone. Together, they installed a reflex in a city.
Since then they have ridden to Ooty, Bhutan, Leh and Shillong, and learned — at a washed-out fork in the road at 4:30 a.m. — that the left road was correct, the right road led to the better story, and both, held together, were right.
Meet the duo
Taktsang — the Tiger's Nest, Bhutan. The scenic route is usually the only route worth taking.