{"id":286858,"date":"2019-08-09T05:44:06","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T05:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=286858"},"modified":"2019-08-09T05:44:06","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T05:44:06","slug":"opinion-can-nitin-gadkari-break-the-deadly-chakra-view-of-indian-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/opinion-can-nitin-gadkari-break-the-deadly-chakra-view-of-indian-roads\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Can Nitin Gadkari break the deadly \u2018chakra-view\u2019 of Indian roads?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The gigantic \u2018battle of cousins\u2019 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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of years on, every roundabout in Delhi feels a bit like the Chakravyuh\u2014but 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\u2019s hard even to enter and pretty much impossible to exit. Unless, that is, you have a big bullying car and can brazen it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The gigantic \u2018battle of cousins\u2019 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\u2019s 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\u2014but even harder to negotiate. Abhimanyu, after all, was easily able to enter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-roads-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}