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Rupaditya Adireddy, a student of electrical engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, calls his bicycle his “soulmate”. “Our campus is spread over 300 acres and just to go from my hostel to the seminar hall takes a good 15 minutes by cycle. On the first day, when I did not have a cycle, I walked 5 km and before the class would begin I was exhausted. Can’t imagine my life on campus without a cycle,” he says.

Cycling has had quite a journey in India. “During the pandemic, the global bicycle market grew by 26.1 per cent.