"Ahmedabad: street scene" this was a day when the market was closed.
Today came across an interesting article "Check it out, JUG SURAIYA" (Times Of India Delhi, 16/11/2008, Section: All that Matters, page no. 20) which made me laugh. Ahh its good.
"It has been estimated that at any given time on any given Indian road there can be as many as 34 different examples of locomotion in operation: cars, trucks, two-wheelers, three-wheelers, bullock-carts, donkey-carts, humancarts, tractors, bulldozers, camels, elephants, stray dogs, strayer children. Not only are all of these, and more, on the same road at the same time but they all also seem imbued with the singular purpose of occupying the same segment of space at the same time as each other, thereby giving practical proof of the hypothesis advanced by Stephen Hawking and other string theorists that our world is not three-dimensional, as our everyday senses suggest, but eight-, ten-, or twelve-dimensional, enabling matter and energy to slip in and out of secret nooks and crannies of the cosmos and WATCH THAT EFFING CYCLIST WHERE THE BLOODY HELL DID HE COME FROM!!? "
for the complete article
http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=Q0FQLzIwMDgvMTEvMTYjQXIwMjAwNQ==&Mode=HTML&Locale=english-skin-custom
I have made the journey several times and its quite a fun. The "STOP! POLICE CHECKING" has been there for quite a while and I can swear that in last 23 years of my existence I never spotted one policeman near those. And I am little confused about the training school the government bus drivers attend, maybe the government packs them off to France and so they end up driving on the left side of the road instead the normal right side where the rest of us hapless drivers drive. Actually we care for the environment so instead of driving a km to make the u-turn to catch on the paranthas at the road-side dhabha (who pays a commission to the bus-drivers) we just drive on the wrong side. The optimist in us looks at the fact that we can drive on any side of the road, bring on the traffic rule book we will drive right through it.
Happy motoring.
