Driving manners here (in KL) and there (in India)
It amazes me to see the difference in driving manners in Malaysia and India. We are so used to incessant honking, cars weaving from lane to lane, trying our best to prevent pedestrians from crossing over and all manner of mayhem on the roads that we sometimes forget that normal drivers do not drive that way. I do not remember about Bangladesh, but even in Nepal and Sri Lanka among the South Asian countries are drivers not such louts as in India. And here in Malaysia they follow all the decencies that are normal among drivers worldwide. Drivers slow down at zebra crossings to allow pedestrians to cross, they do not start honking dementedly if the driver in front of them slows down for some reason or does not zoom off the blocks as soon as the light turns green. I have not seen n abusive driver yet and nor have I seen drivers yelling insults in the road at others in the time I have been here.. It is sometimes difficult to believe that Indians are inheritors of a 5000 year old civilizatio...