AGAME OF I-spy involving only objects you can find in the middle of a road in London would be rather short. The little eye would spy motorised vehicles, cyclists and the occasional pedestrian (striding briskly to the other side). The same game in Mumbai, however, could take hours. Its carriageways are home not just to pedestrians and parked cars but to utility boxes, construction debris, abandoned roadworks, piles of garbage, makeshift shops, itinerant vendors, trees, cows, dogs and even places of worship. The Indian street is an egalitarian place. It is also filthy, cacophonous and gridlocked.
AGAME OF I-spy involving only objects you can find in the middle of a road in London would be rather short. The little eye would spy motorised vehicles, cyclists and the occasional pedestrian (striding briskly to the other side). The same game in Mumbai, however, could take hours. Its carriageways are home not just to pedestrians and parked cars but to utility boxes, construction debris, abandoned roadworks, piles of garbage, makeshift shops, itinerant vendors, trees, cows, dogs and even places of worship. The Indian street is an egalitarian place. It is also filthy, cacophonous and gridlocked.
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