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Remembering Veenu Paliwal, the biker whoinspired a generation

Last updated on: April 14, 2016 16:40 IST

Veenu Paliwal, India's top female biker who broke stereotypes and inspired

several others, breathed her last on April 11 this year.

eenu Paliwal's love for motorcycles started in 1990 when she got her college friends to

teach her how to ride.

But, work and then marriage made the road bumpy.

After her divorce, Veenu who was a restaurateur, bought the Harley Davidson and soon she

and her motorcycle became a familiar sight in the narrow by-lanes of Jaipur.

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The passion for riding hadn't left her. She rose to become one of India's top woman bikers.

ing a biker automatically meant she was changing

can do it so can we".

nd lounge called Chah Bar in Jaipur's Diggi Palace.

"There are constant challenges for women

in today's male-dominated world. It is up to

us to break out and prove that we are

capable of anything. Biking was one such

way of telling both men and women that,

'hey, we women can ride too'," she had said.

Known for driving a Harley Davidson at

180 kmph, Veenu had clocked 17,000 km

since November 2015 and aimed to hit

50,000 km in a year, before upgrading to

Harley's touring bike Road King.

Riding a bike gave her a sense of

accomplishment and an increased

awareness of road safety.

"When you're on a bike, all your senses are

aware and on overdrive. You have to be

alert because you're on your own, and if

anything happens, you have to take

control," she had said.

This summer, Veenu wanted to teach her

teenage daughter to ride so that she could

follow her footsteps.

She was also planning to make a

documentary on her motorbike journey across the country.

Forty-four-year-old Veenu was doing what she loved when she was killed in a road accident in

Madhya Pradesh's Vidisha district on Monday evening.

She was on a countrywide tour on her Harley Davidson along with fellow biker Deepesh

Tanwar when her motorcycle skidded off the road.

An autopsy identified that excessive internal bleeding was the cause of her death.

Think Change India celebrates Veenu for her courage and her will to chart her own path

fearlessly. May her soul rest in peace.

All images: Kind courtesy Veenu Paliwal/Facebook

Think Change India

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