The Auto Rickshaws!

These guys just cruise to the side of the road whenever someone needs to be picked up (they are shared transport - very cheap and efficient but they get greedy and cram up to 8 into a vehicle designed for 4). But the way they wander across your path if you are in the far left lane is very scary!

Surviving on Indian Roads - Tips for the uninitiated! (The real truth behind Indian Traffic rules! Or: How I am learning to stay alive whilst dying a million deaths)

April 24th 2010
I have only been riding my new Enfield 350cc motorcycle a couple of days now in Bhubaneswar and thought I should write down these thoughts before I become just another participant in this web of conspiracy against every ‘official’ traffic ordinance ever written into law! The latter is bound to happen to me (indeed it must for there to be any chance of survival out there at all - you sure can� ... read more

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The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more

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