Today's Commute

Bus with a Colorful Load

These pictures are the haul for the day. On the dusty highway I suddenly spotted these colorful balloons tied to the back of the bus. I reached out for my camera. I mean it is a much better site that watching people sitting on the top of the bus. Fir a while there was a car in between our car and this bus and I was wondering if it would go away before I could photograph it.

Colorful Load

My hunch is that the owner of this load was sitting inside the bus but there was no place to keep his stuff. So he found a way and I found a photo opportunity.

Noticing Trucks

Blurred Picture

It was around 6.45 in the evening yesterday and I was almost at the end of my evening commute. There is a roundabout where I invariably get a traffic jam and this Friday was no different. I was really sitting in my car quite bored till I saw the truck ahead of me.

I immediately took out my camera and clicked but my windshield had a lot of dust on it and the result was the picture above and quite disappointing.

Truck Art

Then I opened the window, took my hand out and clicked. The result is so much more better. I have clicked a very similar picture of another truck before and yet there are a few differences. In this one there is a girl sitting quite pensively and the quote in Hindi that says Roya Karege Shanu Yaa Karke (Shanu would cry when she remembers me).

In my previous job my total commute was 16km and now it is 62. You can see how it has impacted my blogging and the pictures. And I am not cribbing about my commute, just mentioning that it has increased and I see a lot of trucks or maybe I notice them now much more.

You Get to See what I Get to See!

Truck quotes is what I see most of these days when I travel, so that is what I end up sharing.

Truck Art, Gurgaon, India

This truck caught my eye because of the quote in Hindi saying, "Dekh Thakur ke That." I can once again try and kill it in translation. Would it come off as, "See the Important Man and his excesses?" Sounds like perfect case of 'lost in translation.'

More Truck Art from Gurgaon, India

This one again features because of the quote in Hindi, "Dhan chaho tou dan karo." Would mean if you wish to get rich give away in charity first.

PS. We always get blow horn for sure.

PPS. Nilesh, do you still read my blog? :D

I Wish I had the Point and Shoot with me Today

A Lion for you, Truck Art, Gurgaon, India

Wish I had the point and shoot with me today, the mobile pictures are quite hazy.

And Yet More Truck Art

Colorful Truck Art

You can't blame me for posting these, I can only post what I see most! And you have to admit this one was quite colorful.

Of course this time we have 'blow horn' and not 'horn please.

More Truck Art- Can We Ever Escape Horn Please?

Truck Art and Of Course Horn Please Once Again

The Way it Rained! Plus Some More Truck Art

Rains at Gurgaon

I was coming back from work and it was around 6.10 pm, time when there is wide day light on a normal day. It had started raining when I left and it kept on getting dark. Soon it was so dark that all the vehicles started switching on the lights. And after a while it became plain night with pouring rain. Took me a long time to get back home.

More Cow and Calf on the Trucks

I am quite amazed with the number of cow and calf trucks that I get to see on the roads. I wonder if it is peculiar to Haryana/NCR or it is a wider trend? How can it not say horn please? But I found the 'friend' part a little different and of course there has to be something about god, so this one invokes 'Jai Balaji' (Lord Balaji be praised).

Meanwhile, Sidhu pointed out to me that the Pakistani Truck Art is quite elaborate and eye catching. Have a look, I have never seen anything like it before.

Mahindra or Tata? A Case of Confused Identity!

Mahindra is one big company that makes vehicles. Tata is another. This one has both written at the back. I suspect it was built by the Mahindra's but says 'Ok Tata' as a way greeting.

Obsessed with the Truck Art these Days!

More OK Tata on the Trucks, Gurgaon

More OK Tata just above the wheels in the middle of the truck!

Same cow and the calf theme!

Yet to find one that doesn't believe in 'horn please.'

This one has an additional line 'fir milenge' which is 'we will meet again'.

Tata Truck Art

Will the Tata Sons object to use of the word tata on this truck too?

And the trucks always have 'horn please' on their back! I have to find one which doesn't believe in the honking philosophy.

It has been Raining Trucks and Truck Art

Both the trucks had very similar design. And both of them have honking as their theme. One says 'Blow Horn' and the other Horn Please.

Blow Horn!

On the first truck it says 'Hari Om' (a religious Hindu chanting) and then maa ka ashirvad (mother's blessings). Between the wheels there is a small plate says ladli (pet).

Use Dipper at Night!

This one says 'use dipper at night,' though I don't know why. Another peculiar Indian driving habit is to drive on full beam at night. The roads that are pitch dark I can understand the need of the full beam but then we hardly dip it even on well lit roads. The lower plate on this one says 'buri nazar wale tera muh kala!' A difficult phrase for me to translate. I had a look at google and it has been translated as 'Back off or smoke in your face.'

Now that I am forced to spend so much more time on the road what to do but to write about trucks. Let us see when I get bored out of it.

Even More Truck Art

Once Again- 'Horn Please' in Hindi

After looking at the pictures I keep clicking of the trucks I think I should start carrying my ancient Nikon 3200 in my purse once again. The resolution of the mobile phone is too low at 2 megapixels.

The number of the pictures on the road have gone up because for part of the way I have started traveling with a colleague.

And what else but to have a cow and a calf depicted at the back of the truck along with the ubiquitous 'horn please.'

More Pictures from the Road

Gurgaon-Delhi Expressway

I was focusing on the aircraft (and I was not driving) on the Gurgaon-Delhi Expressway and this Motorcyclist came in the frame too! Theoretically motorcycles are not allowed on this expressway!

More Truck Art, Gurgaon

Saw something similar before, but I think that was a different truck. Couldn't get close to this one and no once again I was not driving.

Overloaded Again, A Moped this Time, Noida

Colorful Truck Art

Colorful Truck Art

This truck again asks us to 'horn please.' The art on this one is quite colorful and instantly caught my eye. The Hindi line says, "Think really hard what would you take away when you leave this world." What do you say to that?

I liked the colors on the back so much that I deliberately followed it up to the red light so that I could click a picture. I would have been very disappointed if the light was already green, because then the truck would not have stopped and I would have not been able to click the picture. I have to admit that it was one of the rare occasions when I decided to crawl behind a slow moving vehicle but then it was so colorful that I had to take a picture.