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The Thar Roxx Has Arrived — And So Have the Plans

There are moments when you make a decision and immediately feel it settle something inside you — like a puzzle piece clicking into place that you didn't realise was missing.

Booking the Mahindra Thar Roxx was one of those moments.

Not just because it's a genuinely brilliant machine. But because booking it made the plans real. The trips we'd been talking about for years — the ones that lived in the "someday" category — suddenly had a vehicle. Literally.

My family and I have been dreaming out loud ever since. Here's what we're chasing.

Leh Ladakh in the Thar Roxx: The One I've Been Waiting For

I've done Leh Ladakh on a Royal Enfield — solo, in February, through snow and ice and every kind of weather the Himalayas can throw at you. That trip changed me. I've written about it, thought about it, gone back to it in my mind a hundred times.

But doing it with family, in the Thar Roxx? That's a different kind of dream entirely.

The rocky trails. The steep passes. The monasteries perched impossibly on ridgelines above Leh. The silence of Pangong Lake in the early morning. The alien landscape of Nubra Valley that makes you feel like you've accidentally driven onto a different planet.

I want my family to see all of it. I want them to feel what I felt on that solo ride — that particular humility that the Himalayas enforce, that deep quiet that mountains seem to place inside you.

The Thar Roxx was built for this kind of terrain. And we were built for this kind of journey.

Spiti Valley: For the Ones Who Want Something Rawer

If Leh Ladakh is the famous older sibling, Spiti Valley is the quieter, stranger, more intense one.

The roads are harder. The altitude is unforgiving. The landscapes are almost abstract — moonscapes broken by the occasional splash of a painted monastery or a prayer flag snapping in the wind. Very few tourists. Very little noise. The kind of isolation that either breaks you or opens you up, with not much in between.

We want that. Both of us — the challenge and the opening. The Thar Roxx's 4WD capability and ground clearance will handle the terrain. The rest, we'll handle together.

Delhi to Goa: 1,800 Kilometres of the Country I Love

I've done this route in pieces, but never end to end, and never with the people I love most in the back seat.

Delhi to Goa is almost 1,800 kilometres of India at its most varied. The flat stretch through Rajasthan. The change in landscape as you cross into Maharashtra. The coast appearing on the horizon. The particular smell of the sea after days of dry air and highway food and service stations.

We want the experience of that distance — of watching the country change around you, kilometre by kilometre, through windows and over chai at roadside dhabas and in conversations that only happen when you're moving through space together.

Road trips do something to families. They're one of the last genuinely shared experiences left — no one's on their phone when the landscape outside is worth watching.

Delhi to Meghalaya: Into the Northeast

This one is the furthest. The most ambitious. And the one I'm most excited about.

Meghalaya — the abode of clouds — is unlike anywhere else in India. The living root bridges in Cherrapunji. The cleanest river I've ever seen in Dawki. Mawlynnong, the cleanest village in Asia. The way the monsoon transforms everything into something dense and green and alive in a way that doesn't exist in the north.

Getting there from Delhi overland means crossing through states I've barely touched — Bihar, Bengal, Assam — and that journey through the length of the subcontinent feels like a story in itself, separate from the destination.

The Thar Roxx is built for long hauls. And this is the longest haul I can imagine from our driveway.

Car Camping: Falling Asleep to the Sound of Rivers

One thing we're incorporating into all of these trips — something that would've been impossible before — is car camping.

There's something about waking up next to a river, or on a hillside, in a place you drove to the previous afternoon and won't remember in five years but will feel in your bones for the rest of your life. The Thar Roxx makes that possible — comfortable enough to sleep in, capable enough to get to the places worth sleeping at.

A campfire. The sound of water. My family, away from schedules and screens. That's the dream, repeated across as many landscapes as we can find.

Why These Trips Matter More Than the Destination

I've been on enough journeys to know that the destination is rarely the point.

The point is what happens in the in-between. The conversations that come out of long hours on the road. The moments when something beautiful appears unexpectedly and everyone in the car goes quiet. The problems that get solved because you've been talking for six hours and finally said the thing you'd been avoiding.

These trips are how I want my family to experience the country we live in. Not from airports and hotel lobbies — from the road, at ground level, at the pace that lets you actually see it.

The Thar Roxx is booked. The plans are real. The journeys are coming.

I'll be writing about every single one of them.