Uttar Pradesh, a bull peacefully standing in the middle of a noisy road among loud horns and any kind of vehicles, it might be stuck there or more likely takes no notice and just...lives on. India is also this, and more... . Even this clip does not do justice to describe the noise they make some places and times in India on the road. In proportion to the number of vehicles (not so many, not such a busy time) however in this clip you can already tell they make a lot of noise and their horns, bells, trumpets (...) and hammers are insisted. The fact is that usually, when it's time to record, your camera has batteries down, is in the boot or whatever... or you are just too busy with something else or...shocked by the confusion to shoot at the right time. Someone should go over there right on purpose to make sure he can catch the right time and scene. Anyway, it's quite a challenge getting used to indian traffic system for a westerner, but very soon it was not so hard for an italian like me. It was almost like going back in time some places in Italia, just slightly more than that and with some fancy differences and cows free roaming without the ownership bell around their neck and not just rarely crossing (on mountains or hills) to get to fields or farms.... . Not to mention bulls free roaming too: even though they may look alike cows enough to see them as cows, in Europe and most places you would never see a bull peacefully free roaming, they'd be either running to a Corrida in Spain or be escaped from somewhere or from the owner by mistake or just for a short break close around a secluded farm or in a wide but fenced field in Italia. A bull in Europe is considered dangerous to people and for many reasons (maybe right because of that fame and the way people look at it), either because in good shape or because in bad shape, it would soon be actually dangerous most times if left free roaming in non countryside-alike areas (and even there...).
Explaining how (and why) traffic works over in India to westerners or even most non South Asian people never been there is another long chapter though... . Apart from all the rest, that you can see on other you tube videos, I'd need an Indian person to explain better the reason why when a road is wide enough for vehicles to stay for a while side by side, most of the times Indians overtake on the left side (the inside) and stay slow moving on the overtaking lane (the right hand lane). It's like a "mixed system": they drive on the left like in UK (and in most ex British colonies plus a few other countries) but very often or most times on wide roads they overtake on the left (again) like in the rest of Europe, US and remaining countries (I read that the ratio between an average of land extension and number of nations driving on the right compared to those driving on the left worldwide is roughly 60 to 40). It's got to do with the presence of many slow or funny moving vehicles on the side of the road, but a good indian explanation would be welcome...
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Traffic Cowby yaztrek20,169 views
Thanks to you...:-)
giammira 2 years ago
Nice video, I am here burning the patchouli auro shika incense and listening to Ravi Shankar thanks for the video !
HD24Rocker 2 years ago