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I've driven in almost all states of India. It's not anarchy. It's anarchy mixed with total contempt towards your own life and life of others.

You can see many times per day how they overpass other cars (sometimes even in 2-3 rows simultaneously: one car starts overpassing, then another starts overpassing first, then third..) just before a blind corner. You can witness several times per day how in the middle of the highway where average speed is about 100 km/h somebody may just make a U-turn without using indicators and passing the double solid line.

You can ride 100 kmph on a highway and then suddenly there's a truck or a bus or a motorcycle on your lane coming into you because the driver decided that waiting 2km for the next place where he can make a u-turn is too long.

If you drive even for one day in India you'll witness all these cases and more.

Statistics of deaths on the roads incidentally confirms this.




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