Road Raj? I'll Take the Jumbo! ; the Colours, the Clamour, the World-Famous Sights Is Any Holiday Quite As Exhilarating As an Indian Summer?
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THE time is 2.30am. We have just stepped from a BA flight and are hurtling towards the comforts of the Taj Mahal hotel in New Delhi. Actually, no, we are not hurtling at all - it just feels like that. The dark road is full of creaking, elderly lorries, mostly without rear lights; and the air is filled with honking.
Thank heavens for the comforting presence of a guide who met us off the flight and for an Indian driver. Honk, honk! He is slipstreaming another lorry, on the back of which is painted the usual message: 'Horn please.' Honk honk. . . and the lorry drivers, who never use their mirrors, move over like Pavlov's dog at the sound.See the full content of this document
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Road Raj? I'll Take the Jumbo! ; the Colours, the Clamour, the World-Famous Sights Is Any Holiday Quite As Exhilarating As an Indian Summer?
It is a startling and totally unexpected introduction to a country which, rather like the U.S., lives in the minds of most of us from childhood thanks to the movies, and causes the heart to race with excitement when we actually get there.
I had, in fact, been here twice before on assignments. Once with Margaret Thatcher when she was Prime Minister; and for ten tumultuous days when Indira Gandhi, India's premier, ...See the full content of this document
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