January 4th, 2008

Decoding the Code

Happy New Year, and many thanks for the e-mails from everyone who received the books as Christmas presents. Particular thanks to John Beadle - until now my favourite Indian LiT had been the jar of jam labelled ‘contains no fruit whatsoever’, but it’s been surpassed by this extract from the country’s Highway Code:

We should not drive in the drinking mood and with the worries of the mind. At the time of driving, we should not accompany by ladies. If we do it so, it will create accident.