Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/06/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I haven't seen the video yet, but your description seem just like Bangalore in 2004 when I visited there. Our friend (an Indian native from the area) joked that the Bangalorean dogs are the smartest dogs and they were - they could navigate the traffic much better we ever could have. On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at gmail.com>wrote: > Jayanand, > A question. I spent several years in India from 1984 through 1987 as a > Fulbright Professor at the Univ. of Delhi. The road traffic at the time was > horrendous, much worse even than that of Boston, Athens, or Atlanta. > Today's > New York Times featured a video on India's traffic death rate, the highest > in the world. The video looked identical to those of my home movies taken a > quarter of a century ago. Same mix of pedestrians, animals, mopeds, motor > tricycles, autos, trucks, busses all interacting without discipline or > regulation. Are the conditions still as bad or was the Times engaging in > yellow journalism? > > > http://video.nytimes.com/video/2010/06/07/world/asia/1247467632515/india-s-highways-of-death.html > > Larry Z > > > -- // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.wordpress.com> // photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous replies in your msgs. ]