Mint | Swish expressways must go with public education on using them

On 19 June, Navroze Contractor was riding back home as usual with his motorcycle group on a service road of Hosur Road (National Highway 44). The 80-year old fellow Bangalorean was a highly regarded filmmaker, photographer, music maven and motorcycle enthusiast. A champion of road safety, he was killed when three drunken motorcyclists riding at high speed on the wrong side of the road crashed into him. The staggering irony compounds the tragedy of lives lost as a result of wrongdoings that are, paradoxically, both avoidable and normalized. Erosion of norms is the fastest way to anarchy. Road safety in India will get worse unless they are addressed now. Read the full article here.