The first thing to learn – whether you like it or not – is that your primary job while driving on our highways is NOT to drive and reach your destination, but to serve and protect the numerous cyclists, bikers, bullock carts, tractors human jaywalkers and animal jaystrollers. Being children of the soil/tar, they can appear anywhere, move from anywhere to anywhere in any which direction they want and you are in charge of safeguarding them from both yourself as well as other motorists around you.
Santhosh is trying to compile the essential Indian highway etiquette that are obviously unique to India.
Of course, if humor is not your forte and we don’t want to get into trouble for letting you think that Santhosh is serious, here is a Cliff Notes summary of 30 basic rules of the road in India. Don’t be surprised to see them flouted every day at your nearest crossroad.
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Sushil
May 12th, 2009 at 12:51 am | #
Hi Patrix, Thanks for linking to my blog. I found it intersting to read Santhosh’s post as well since that is reality on the roads today. After coming across the govt website with the rules I was shocked that even myself an educated “good” citizen was not following the rules. Am trying to follow atleast a few at a time – since it seems next to impossible to follow all of them.
Just like Santhosh I also worked on a rant post comparing the actual rules with how people really drive this past weekend. Please do take a look.