According to The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy, the infrastructure that is in place for road users is skewed against non-motorised transport, either pushing pedestrians to the margins of the road networks, or even worse, compelling them to jostle for space with motor vehicles, thereby exposing them to injury or death.
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Pazha Athiyaman’s book Chennaikku Vanthen is a compilation of articles by famed authors on their first impressions of Madras. In it is a short story, Vaithikar Pattina Pravesam by Kothamangalam Subbu. The narrator goes to Central railway station to receive an orthodox Brahmin, who is on his maiden visit to the city. They emerge from the station and wait at a bus stop.
Vaithikar: “Why are we waiting?”
Published – August 22, 2026 08:01 am IST