Bratya Basu

theatre personality

nBeing a Calcuttan means giving in to road rage at some point of time or the other. What triggers off my rounds of such blind rage are traffic snarls. I squarely blame the mounting number of private cars on the road and the taxis and autos, the drivers of which have a distressingly blas? attitude towards even the most basic rules. Nothing, not even consideration for their own lives, let alone that of others, seems to guide these people. They are the single most menacing objects on Calcutta’s roads and jam the city up wherever they can.

I also bemoan the lack of pedestrian overbridges in the city. With the traffic intersections getting busier by the day, there should be more overhead pedestrian passes.

But on the whole, I feel that pedestrians in Calcutta are generally law-abiding and put up with a lot of unnecessary inconvenience at their own cost.