The best snippet of Kolkata traffic I took on my camera.
I'm perched on the right hand side of the front seat of a rickshaw on the way from the Anandaloy home to the Tollygunge metro station. There are seven in the rickshaw, three passengers in the back and three passengers plus the driver in the front. I'm holding on for dear life with my left hand as the handle bars slide back and forth under my armpit and I'm holding the camera on my knee with my right hand.
Failed to capture the moments when we were sandwiched between two buses, inch gap either side, inspecting the depth of tread on the bus tyres. Face full of diesel. Also failed to capture the sense of imminent death.
The traffic is the reason Indians don't need adventure sports like bungee jumping or parachuting.
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