CONTENTS

Start me up – Bagging the £1,000 car

1 Trial by Rush Hour – Girl Meets Traffic

Mumbai

RULE OF THE ROAD #1: THERE ARE NO RULES

2 Take-off – Down the NH66

Mumbai to Nagaon

3 Round the Bend – Defining Sanity, Osho Style

Pune

RULE OF THE ROAD #2: PUKKA PROTOCOL

4 The SH11T – Lost in Maharashtra

Kolhapur to Arambol

5 Anarchy on the NH7 – The Central Badlands

Hampi to Bangalore

RULE OF THE ROAD #3: HORN OK PLEASE

6 Mister Thor – Girl Meets Boy

Bangalore

7 Pedal to the Metal – The Hills of the Nilgiris

Mysore to Fort Kochi

RULE OF THE ROAD #4: FULL BEAMS OR BUST

8 Southern Comfort – A Swami’s Words of Wisdom

Kanyakumari to Tiruchirappali

9 Divine (Car) Insurance – Consecration and Catastrophe

Pondicherry

RULE OF THE ROAD #5: LEARN AT EVERY TURN

10 Paradise Beach – Finding Eden in Little France

Pondicherry to Chennai

11 Smart Car – More for Less for More

Hyderabad

RULE OF THE ROAD #6: STAY SAFE

12 O-R-I-S-S-A – Pastoral Paradise and X-rated Architecture

Bhubaneswar to Konark

13 Road Rage – Fear and Loathing in the Red-Hot Corridor

Bodh Gaya

14 The Raj by Car – Mr Kipling and the Henglish Drizzle

Nainital to McLeod Ganj

RULE OF THE ROAD #7: DON’T DRIVE (TOO) SILLY

15 Deflated in Delhi – How Not to Deal with a Blowout

New Delhi

16 One for the Road – A Right Royal Knees-Up at the Maharaja’s Table

Omkareshwar to Mumbai

RULE OF THE ROAD #8: MIND THE BULLOCKS

Starting Over – From Nano to Pixel

Epilogue

Notes

Acknowledgements