One nation - One People! Vande Maataram!!

Vande Maataram,  has already gained so much of support from everyone. We all have the pride of our nation the topmost priority. Its not even a month when the idea struck us but we already have 6000 + people supporting the cause. An achievement for sure, the achievement is certainly not numbers but the fact that people, citizens of this country are united in the idea and have something great and unique to look forward to.

Bharadwaj Dayala's thoughts behind the launch of Vande Maataram

"When I thought of this idea (Educating the youth of India the importance of their vote), I was not very sure whether I'll be able to do it or not. As time passes by, few more gave me a thumbs up for this noble cause and motivated me to proceed.
Now, after looking at the response from people around the country (your queries, motivation, curiosity and most importantly willingness to join & support this movement) has built the confidence in me that We'll make it happen. I would like to thank personally each and every individual supporting this cause of Uniting our nation once again. Lets spread out and tell everyone out there that "We are coming for you in your city / college on our motorcycles just for your support".

---Vande Maataram Movement--- 15th March 2014 from Mumbai.

A lot of planning has gone into finalising the route, Bharadwaj Dayala has worked day in and out with his team of bikers to finalise the dates and the riding plan. This looks perfect!

Date     Departure   Arrival   Stay   Distance 

15-Mar Mumbai  Goa  Goa   600
16-Mar Goa Chitradurga Chitradurga 360
17-Mar Chitradurga Bangalore Bangalore 210
18-Mar Bangalore Tenkasi Tenkasi 600
19-Mar Tenkasi Trivandrum Trivandrum 120
19-Mar Trivandrum Tiruchirappalli Tiruchirappalli 450
20-Mar Tiruchirappalli Pondicherry 210
21-Mar Pondicherry Chennai Chennai 160
22-Mar Chennai Hyderabad Hyderabad 650
23-Mar Hyderabad Adilabad Adilabad 310
24-Mar Adilabad Raipur Raipur 600
25-Mar Raipur Sambhalpur Sambhalpur 300
26-Mar Sambhalpur Bhubhaneshwr Bhubaneswr 300
27-Mar BhubhaneshwarRanchi Ranchi 510
28-Mar Ranchi Calcutta Calcutta 400
29-Mar Calcutta Farakka Barrage Farakka Barrag 300
30-Mar Farakka BarrageSiliguri Siliguri 400
31-Mar Siliguri Bongaigaon Bongaigaon 260
1-Apr Bongaigaon Shillong Shillong 300
2-Apr Shillong Guwahati Guwahati 450
3-Apr Guwahati Bongaigaon Bongaigaon 200
4-Apr Bongaigaon Gangtok Gangtok 360
5-Apr Gangtok
6-Apr Gangtok Dalkhola Dalkhola 250
7-Apr Dalkhola Patna 350
8-Apr Patna Lucknow Lucknow 550
9-Apr Lucknow Rampur Rampur 310
10-Apr Rampur Dehradun 250
11-Apr Dehradun Shimla 250
12-Apr Shimla Jammu Jammu 450
13-Apr Jammu Chandigarh Chandigarh 350
14-Apr Chandigarh Delhi Delhi 250
15-Apr Delhi Delhi
16-Apr Delhi Jaipur Jaipur 300
17-Apr Jaipur Bhopal Bhopal 600
18-Apr Bhopal Indore 200
19-Apr Indore
20-Apr Indore Gandhinagar Gandhinagar 420
21-Apr Gandhinagar Ahmedabad 30
22-Apr Ahmedabad Daman Daman 350
23-Apr Daman 

24-Apr Daman Mumbai Mumbai 150                                   

Looks interesting indeed!

Check our facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Vandemaataram2014
For the minute planning details: http://vandemaataram-getspotted.blogspot.in/
Join there and support the cause! You'll love the journey and will be proud of your role.

Are you ready for Vandemaataram?

Now that we understand the idea behind Vande Maatram, Everyone is going to be part of it either out there on the field or here on the page and in the neighbourhood. Voting and inspiring everyone in your locality to do so. Youth has the charm and the power to move an entire nation! So people get on with it.

An update from Team Vande Maataram. (Sharing it in the post as it is...)

WANTED RIDERS FOR VANDE MAATARAM.

**** SEND YOUR PROFILE TO vandemaataram2014@gmail.com***

(SUBJECT should be RIDER REGISTRATION)

Dear Rider,

Thanks for waiting so patiently. Here are the details to join the Biggest ever biker movement. We can assure you this is not a fun ride. The ride is going to be tough. You may need to ride 10-12 hours a day with breaks and may also need to ride in the night if necessary (though we don't plan to do it). staying would be in college hostels and camping.
The ride is all about being a proud son of India doing his own duty for the betterment of the Nation.

WE ARE TRYING HARD TO GET FUNDING FOR ALL THE 29 RIDERS. WE ARE POSITIVE ABOUT IT. BUT THE TIME IS SHORT SO YOU MAY HAVE TO BEAR THE COSTS OF THE RIDE. We will give the break up of the costs and exact schedule of the ride.
ALL RIDERS ARE WELCOME TO RIDE WITH THIS CORE TEAM OF 29 BIKERS IN THEIR OWN STATES AND CITIES.

Our requisites:

1. 5000 rupees fully refundable deposit only if we select you (we want only serious riders).

2. Gender - Both male and female

3. Age - 23 to 33 (we are campaigning for youth and trust us the ride is going to be strenuous).

4. Bike 190cc and above (we will be riding continuously at 80 kph for long hours).

5. A fit body & less attitude. And of course the bike must be in very good condition.

6. No liquor/contraband substances during the entire ride (there will be a grand party at the end though  )

7. Must be willing to sleep in common rooms or tents (we will make sure you are comfortable).

8. Will have to sign an affidavit saying you will not support any political party or person or religion during the campaign. And indemnity bond.

9. Give us your Facebook profile, stories of past rides.

10. What bike you are riding. Description of your bike & a its mechanical knowledge.

11. If you can stay all the 45 days of the ride (first we will chose those who want to ride all through).

12. Are you willing to fund yourself if necessary?

13. AND WHY SHOULD WE SELECT YOU???

Send us your profile with all the details above to vandemaataram2014@gmail.com at the earliest (too many are waiting).
Yes we know you have many more questions. You will get all that information during the day itself.

Thanks for your support.
Vande Maataram.

They have not made me eligilble to ride, I guess 37 is too old!.... old my foot!... all the people belonging to my generation and older, lets show everyone that we are young at heart and can move a mountain if we wish to! What say?

Check our facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Vandemaataram2014
For the minute planning details: http://vandemaataram-getspotted.blogspot.in/
Join there and support the cause! You'll love the journey and will be proud of your role.

Vande Maataram- Get spotted or you'll be spotted!

I am filled with pride when I sing our national song. I sang in the school choir, felt that pride even them. I would always get  nostalgic and feel patriotism and love for our motherland. Infact whenever I sing the national anthem, get so emotional that I need to work on not getting that choking feeling. I am sure you know what I mean. Have heard it from the others too. There have been moments when I have cried singing the national anthem and seeing the tricolour unfurl. This may sound familiar to a lot of you. 

Our freedom fighters laid their lives to earn a free nation for us. We were born in a free and modern, developing nation. A country that the whole world looks upto not just for our rich cultural heritage but also for being an economy that the whole world is looking at. 

We too have a role to play as the citizens of the largest democracy in the world, its certainly no mean feat! the need of the hour is exercising our rights as well as fulfilling duties towards our nation. We have to help get the right people to form our government.
Vande Maataram movement is launched just to address that - our little bit for our great nation. Everyone do your duty, go out and vote!

What is Vande Maataram?

It was the largest movement that united all citizens of India before Independence. And it is now going to unite all the youth of the nation to come forward and vote. 
All the bikers of the country are uniting to undertake the largest ever biker movement to help build a bright future of this great nation. 

The ride:
29 riders representing 29 states of India will ride to each and every state Capital, meeting and energizing the youth all along the way. They are not supported by anyone but the people of this country. No politics, no parties, no persons. Its just the Call of duty!

The ride will start from Mumbai on 16th March 2014, with the largest number of bikers coming to support the National Team of 29 riders. The rally ends at New Delhi with the largest ever gathering of bikers in the world (the event will be in the Guinness book of World Records ).

Come join hands in whichever capacity you can and support the cause. The country needs you. And this is time to take action. Be ready for the Go......

Check our facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Vandemaataram2014
For the minute planning details: http://vandemaataram-getspotted.blogspot.in/
Join there and support the cause! You'll love the journey and will be proud of your role.

Be the Change!

The future belongs to the visionaries that believe in change.
~Mauricio Fragas Rosenfeld

Believe that tomorrow will be better than today!

Dream Live Series

In one of my posts I wrote, " If you can't change your mind, you are not using it." and someone took it literally and started working on it. We met on 27th February to discuss the launch of Dream Live. A dream project for Bharadwaj Dayala and all of us connected with it either directly or in spirit. It has tremendous support and fans building on the social media. We were waiting for the announcement for Dream Live to go live on 1st March.

Everyone was expecting Dayala to share the first information about the project Dream Live and the very reason why we were there in the first place. Dayala, addressed the gathering, he began with saying that I would be disappointed to hear what he had to say as I had worked on the countdown coming out with an enthusiastic and encouraging post on my blog everyday without fail. I was looking at him wondering what was coming up.

He said Vande Mataram! Spoke about our country being at the threshold of change. It could be either for good or for worse but it was bound to change, the elections were round the corner. Then he asked us how many of us had voted. Amost everyone sitting there answered in the negative excepting a couple of us who said that they voted once. He asked us whether we thought we did our duties as the citizens of this country. Were we fit to be living in a democratic country or we still loved playing the blame game? Why we were not involved in the change process? The least we could do was to go out and vote. He never told us whom to vote but vote we must! He said that this bothered him. If we didn't care about such important aspects of democracy, do we then have  a right to blame the system? Another round of pin drop silence followed his remark.

Again got us all thinking on a different context now and we somehow agreed with him. He said the elections would somewhere decide the fate of the nation either good or bad. That's also the time he would start his world tour, his Dream Live project. He said that for the past couple of days that he was in hibernation, he had been thinking about this. He added that when so much was happening here he didn't want to be out. So before he embarks on his second world tour, he had to do something for his country that may push Dream Live by two months may be. 

I was certainly not disappointed but felt good that all bikers and youth will be united for a cause that may change the way elections happen. Everyone will be involved in the decision making for a better government and somewhere we all would have played a little role in that. What else could one ask for.

He  spoke about what he intended to do and asked us what we thought of his idea. It was brainstormed and finally we all agreed on the big plan, "Vande Maataram". It'll involve bikers, no matter what bike they ride to come together and be a part of this drive for the motherland, for nation building. Again a voluntary and non commercial activity. He doesn't even want to associate with any company or political party. It'll be a biker driven initiative. But something that we all can be proud of, our little bit for the nation, that can go a long way. It'll start from Mumbai with a few bikers going around the states visiting colleges and asking the youth to go out and vote and also spread the word in their neighbourhood. 

He wrote on his page, 

"Thank God for this timely advise.I was in doubt till now as to how people will react to my ideas, plans or intentions? Will they support me or shun me? Or label me to some type or the other? But now the decision is made. I will be what I am and I will do what I think is good and if my intentions are right then people will be with me and together we will conquer. This must have been the thought behind Vande Maataram".

Get spotted or you'll be spotted

Its not just biking / riding anymore!

We all ride. We ride for our passion, obsession towards riding / bike/ bullets, for refreshments, for friends, etc. This time we are gonna ride cos our nation needs it. For something that is important but hardly we (the youth) pays attention. We all crib that politics has ruined India, so who'll change that? Youth of the country has the potential.
---Vande Mataram Movement--- Join the support.
Get spotted!  Jai Hind!

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