Mumbai, Kandivali East – painted Goods-Carriers

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Indian Goods Carriers are often paint with inspiring designs and colours.

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HORN PLEASE is written on the backside of big Good Carriers. Indian traffic is ‘self directing’, means, on intersections every one crosses any other vehicle at any moment. To understand, go to this link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjrEQaG5jPM

If you DO NOT horn, the driver can not know where exactly you exist behind him.

Ok, now you wonder how they learn it. I have seen Rickshaw drivers taking their young, some 5-7 years old boy on their knees while driving. The boy just watches and gets the intuitive feeling of how it works. When once grown up, he ‘has it inside’.

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The same truck, from front and the back.

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December 2006: I photographed them one morning by walking through Kandivali East, a Mumbai’s northern suburb.