{"id":404413,"date":"2019-02-07T13:15:48","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T07:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.youthkiawaaz.com\/?p=404413"},"modified":"2024-04-02T15:57:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T10:27:28","slug":"7-nris-india-road-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.youthkiawaaz.com\/2019\/02\/7-nris-india-road-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Sad But True: NRIs Drop Truth Bombs About The State Of India’s Roads"},"content":{"rendered":"
“It’s just a pothole, don’t be so dramatic!”<\/em><\/p> I still remember my friend’s words, nearly 6 years ago, as clearly as if it happened yesterday. It was during my undergraduate studies in Bengaluru, when after it had rained incessantly, I was trying to make my way home without getting knee-deep in muck, slush and quite possibly rat urine<\/em> (*shudders*).<\/p> As someone who’d been living outside the country (in the “Gelf”, as a lot of my friends put it) for nearly a decade before returning, I must admit, my complaints about the less-than-adequate infrastructure in India were rather OTT. And yet, here, I feel I was completely justified.<\/p> The potholes weren’t the only problem. The road that led from my college to my PG was so narrow, cars would barely squeeze through in opposite direction. But that really didn’t stop people from parking on either side. The impunity of it! Then, there was the fact that every evening there would be a huge traffic jam on that very road, because lane discipline was just too mainstream for folks here, and everyone just had<\/em> to get where they had to be with the utmost urgency.<\/p>