From the Editor-in-Chief
India Today Editor-in-Chief Aroon Puri talks about the new Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act and questions why we haven't been able to introduce a sensible national law for so many years to tackle this calamitous loss of life and limb.
Indians,' the late columnist A.A. Gill once observed, 'drive with an ambivalent extempore gusto, unencumbered by the handicap of rules, training, or insurance, but bolstered by a startling belief in reincarnation.' They also, if I may add, drive on roads that are poorly lit, have faulty signals and potholed surfaces that resemble moonscapes. We have built spacecraft that can withstand the rigours of space travel, but
