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Madhavan Narayanan

How to take joy out of jumping red lights

'Art is anything you can get away with,' wrote Marshall McLuhan in his 1967 book, The Medium is the Massage. The quote has also been attributed to Andy Warhol. Neither media theorist nor pop artist was speaking about unpaid traffic fines. But they might as well have.

Rule-breaking is evidently a high art in the low-life roads of Delhi-NCR. Only the other day, I saw a new Delhi government bus speeding on its way to the nearest metro station, neatly jumping a red light at the Delhi-Noida border.

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