Fighting Prejudice
Feb 07, 2020
4 minutes
Story: Joshua Varghese
Photography: Sanjay Raikar
RANDOM STRANGERS APPROACHED ME DURING MY TIME with the CF Moto 300NK with queries about the motorcycle and most of the time the exchange went like this:
Stranger: ‘Hi, is this a new KTM?’
Self: ‘Nope. That’s the CF Moto 300NK.’
Stranger: ‘CF Moto? Haven’t heard about them before. Are they new?’
Self: ‘They are a Chinese manufacturer and they entered India about a year ago.’
‘Chinese..?’ Asked most of them; the prejudice on their faces quite evident. Anyone could guess the queries that would follow. In the light of such conversations, I decided to set aside
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