first few observations

1) Mobile explosion, tom, dick, hari and pari - everyone seems to be on the phone, not having a phone is a SIN. Btw, getting a phone connection although easy comes with a customary painful background check, the AIRTEL folks found their most confused customer in me, an assamese guy with a maharastrian c/o address where he doesn't reside. To top it all, the phone is used by my wife, who's maharashtrian. There's another angle - I do not have a job. The guy who came to do the check gave up.

2)Driving - its an art here. Let me leave it at that.

3)Crossing the road isn't difficult, the fastest of the vehicles comes to a halt to a stop wave.

4)People people people everywhere.