“Age might have slowed me down, but I still love to work and explore, be it anything,” says 87-year-old Mandakini Shah from Ahmedabad. The feisty senior citizen is defying age and societal norms with her trusty scooter and adventurous spirit.

Mandakini learned to ride a scooter at the ripe age of 62 and has been cruising around the city with her younger sister Usha ever since. When asked why she rides at 87, she simply says, "Why not?"

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The Instagram video, shared by @officialhumansofbombay, has garnered over 1.1 million views so far.

The post read: "For years, people asked, ‘ Aapki shaadi nahi hui? Kya aap vidhwa ho ?’ To them, a woman alone was a story unfinished. To me, I was a story unfolding

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