Yelläks /ˈyæl•eks/

When you reach Bangalore airport at around 7pm, you need to expect that it needs much more time to reach the final destination. By that time it takes around 1.5 hours to cover a distance of just 15km, which is the distance between the airport and IISc campus. It is so packed that the traffic creeps very slowly through the streets. The campus itself is very nice and calm, no very much traffic and even the sound of the horn is heard really rarely. But as soon as you go through one of the gates, the world chances entirely. Here the chaos theory can be analyzed mathematically in real life. Every chance of passing others is taken and every square inch of available space in front of a red signal (if and only if the long traffic worm comes to a hold) is used. The air smells like an exhaust and the fumes are floating above the streets.

But how does it work? Where are the traffic rules? For Europeans, who are used to rules (especially Germans), it is not understandable. Somehow nothing happens and I do not know why. It seems that the driver is only aware of what happens in front of him. He is not interested in what is going on in the back, because that is in the charge of the ones who follow. Nobody reacts, if the drivers sound their horns. Since nobody reacts, the drivers even honk more. “I blow my horn, so I am.”