KAUAI, HI, USA, May, 1996 (by Hinduism Today’s Editor-in-Chief): Nations are defined, in practical reality, not by their financial clout or military strength, not by cultural heritage or natural resources, nor even by their political system and history. They are defined by their traffic. Show me a nation’s roads, and I’ll show you its very soul.
There are the world’s roads, and then there are the roads of India. In India, roads are not a way to get from here to there. Roads are here and there. Roads are slept on, walked on, spat on in India. Roads are used to store and winnow the rice crop, to dry acres of red chilis, to milk the family cow. Roads serve as temporary shops. Not only is every type of transportation found on every road, but every kind of living thing.In the absence of man-made laws there must be some cosmic principles guiding one billion human beings in their urgency to turn cars into carnage. Indeed, guidelines exist, but like guarded secrets of yoga, they are known only by the initiated. They have never been consolidated, interpreted and codified. Now, for the first time in history, we reveal these arcane rules to our readers with the certain knowledge that lives will be saved by this disclosure, based on our recent survival sojourn in India in collaboration with Rajiv Pant (Betul), a Mensa member, computer whiz and engineering student who lives in Paoli, Pennsylvania
Traveling on Indian roads is an almost hallucinatory potion of sound, spectacle and experience. It is frequently heart-rending, sometimes hilarious, frequently exhilarating, always unforgettable–and extremely dangerous. Most Indian road users observe a version of the Bharat Highway Code based on Rickshawsutra, a disputed Sanskrit text summarizing ten regulations (vidhi) of the road and also referred to as the road warriors’ rules of engagement.
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