The Beginning 26/12/07 Things begin when i touch down in Delhi. The airport is a crumbling shit-heap, with electrical wires hanging down from a bare ceiling like vines. I'm picked up by two of IDEX's (Indian Development and Exchange Programs) staff. One is Farouq, one of the project executives, or "guides", I'll be working with over the next few weeks. First experience - Indian roads. Everybody who drives here is batshit crazy - drooling mad cannibals in wheeled carriages of doom. There are no rules of the road here, just a Wacky Races procession of cars, lorries, tuk-tuks, cows, goats, camels and pedestrians. Horns are used constantly, as a means of letting the other drivers that you are coming up hard behind them, and require them to move so you can pass. Overtaking is constant
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