Opinion | Can Nitin Gadkari break the deadly ‘chakra-view’ of Indian roads?
The gigantic ‘battle of cousins’ in the Indian epic Mahabharata, set in Kurukshtra in modern-day Haryana, entered a crucial phase on day 13. That was the day Arjuna and Subhadra’s warrior-son Abhimanyu heroically entered a circular military formation called the Chakravyuh, set up by the evil Kauravas, which was decimating the good Pandava army. Unfortunately, this brave young man had no idea how to get out of the maze, and was killed in action.
Thousands of years on, every roundabout in Delhi feels a bit like the Chakravyuh—but even harder to negotiate. Abhimanyu, after all, was easily able to enter the formation even if the exit route was unknown to him. With roundabouts in Delhi, it’s hard even to enter and pretty much impossible to exit. Unless, that is, you have a big bullying car and can brazen it out.
