Jan 20, 2006 10:41 AM
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(Updated Jan 20, 2006 10:41 AM)
Yes, If the roads of India lead to heaven and the people who drive on them are the angels. The art of driving has become more complex than the art of living and we see no Hell in the near distance because everyone who is driving is an angel dreaming, dreaming and dreaming on the road.
I start in the morning at 8.00 on my Car and we see the world of new breed of young and old on the road as if there is no tomorrow and we are on our way to Heaven in our Country and I see all these angels every day
The Snake charmers
Name them, you have hundreds of new models of bikes on the road which Mouthshut would be proud to have them in the Category and our guys who ride them are snake charmers. As you drive on you see one guy serpentine from one side take a cut from the left and move to the right and overtake the next car take a cut and move to the left and you see the snake moving far off from you in its own beautiful way. The snake charmer even knows to ride over the divider on my beautiful city Hyderabad to go on the other side of the road and again serpentine his ways back the other end.
I wish these guys learn few tricks from Hogwarts School, and then they can fly over the vehicles and move back instead of snake charming. One day they will give competition to Harry Potter in quidditch match as shown in the AD.
The Magicians
The Autowallahs are surely Magicians in Hyderabad and only they have the knack of passing through cycle gap. You know how?
They have smaller enter diameter at the front wheel than the cycle and their job is to just squeeze the front wheel in and rest is taken care off. They have strong rods fitted to the front wheel to harm any vehicle which hinders them. The Magicians keeps moving across every corner of the road as if there were no brakes fitted to their Vehicle and we need to stem our brake hundred times a day to save ignominy of denting our Vehicle. These guys have sent several children to Hell but they remain Angels of Heaven.
The King kongs
If Peter Jackon is capable of one Kingkong, Hyderabad City has thousand such KingKongs. Come here to see them live the City Transport Buses driving more crazily than any KingKong on the screen. Every day I see more than ten KingKongs passing through so many smaller unfortunate vehicles like what we saw in Newyork in the Movie bustling us is more horror than the sight of Ape. Come to Secunderabad station area or any junction in Hyderabad and when you are coolly stopping on the right side of the road for signal, you suddenly see the Big fella in front of you cutting from the left and cutting the signal and trying to squeeze your vehicle to the divider.
The Mavericks
The guys on Maruti 800 are surely mavericks in Hyderabad. They suffer from two egos, one that they have smaller vehicle for such long time while the others had the luxury of buying bigger ones recently and the second they feel that they are the most skilled drivers as they have been driving for long and they want to even give competition to snake charmers as they have only two lines to toe
The wrong side of the road that is the right side which is their own road.
The gaps left by Magicians and Snake charmers on the left side where they keep squeezing, squeezing.
The charming ducks.
The young ladies on the Scooty pep are all charming ducks because they move on the centre of the road at the speed of ducks to gain attention from every snake charmer but the Magicians give competition to snake Charmers in cutting the poor ladies to the ditches. The Snake can smell the ducks and it likes them very much so much so that they serpentine around them leaving us to keep blowing to the ducks deaf ears and they never move back to the side.
The Dinosaurs
These guys are more deadly then any Kingkong and they remind you of Dinosaurs mowing on the cliffs in one big heap as seen on KingKong movie. You know who they are??
Yes , Our politicians with their band of twenty Vehicles (All of them the big SUVS)
with flags of TRS or TDP or Congress on their Vehicle which gives them license to Kill. They blow horns with more sound than Dinosaurs yelling and you get so rattled to give them way else you have to spend 30000 bucks on your car for denting and repairs.
The Dinosaurs belong to another world totally so they do not know what roads and signals are and and they don’t care for human life. They simply keep mowing the road and scare the other drivers to hell.
Indra
Indra as you know is the leader of devas and he is a dummy God. He will only enjoy his position of power and wealth. Our traffic police are the Indra and their job is to ask for documents whether you are one of the eligible angels with a Kirita called as Helmet else you have to pay him the rights.
This is the story of the roads to Heaven in Hyderabad I travel on everyday for my work and see the happy angels oblivious of what is happening around and everybody thinks that there is no Hell because there is no value for life here.
