Friday, May 04, 2007

Mumbai traffic

My usual description of India to those who ask me about it is that even a UFO landing next to me in the streets there wouldn't come as much of a surprise!

For instance, when driving in India you should always be on the lookout for an elephant around the corner or a Boeing 737 illegally parked!


7 comments:

Uma Maheswari said...

I guess India is also experiencing a future shock, just like me…too many technological changes in too little time and end up in such unexpected mess.

;-)

Uma Maheswari said...

My lab guys were surprised and shocked to see this, the first question they asked was what next? May be they will use an elephant to push/pull it right? And when they didn’t believe the elephant skills, I gave them this documentary on use of Elephants in ancient India (you may find it interesting too….) check this out!

Or they may take another one month to dismantle and remove it.

well, when ever we are stuck in funny condition like this, we try to patch up with the story of the past ;-)

so, following the tradition, here is the patch up!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5096103596865842301&q=tamil+temple

Anonymous said...

Joune, I see that you are back to Paris. I'm sure you had a great time. Hope you can cope with normal life again...
By the way, this is indeed very funny.

Uma Maheswari said...

hey! Arjun! Are you alive? no blog for long time!

joune said...

sorry everyone.. i'm still alive but it's been a busy few weeks.. i shall be back soon.. (hopefully!)

joune said...

Excellent initiative "driving-india"..
i also copied your comment to another post of mine about driving in india:
http://joune.blogspot.com/2006/09/i-didnt-kill-no-one.html

i do hope your website will help.. unfortunately i tend to believe that the vast majority of drivers probably don't have internet or if they do don't use it as a learning tool.. the real effort must come from the government.. but "serve and protect" doesn't sound like their moto...

joune said...

and by the way.. knowing anything about clutch and accelerator may help getting a drivers license.. but bribing often proves far more efficient... :(