Worth of a Kolkattan’s life

For the benefit of my readers who do not know Bengali and who do not know how nightmarish the Kolkata roads are, the above script on the back of a nondescript city private bus reads:

This year let’s not race against one another.

The thought is noble, but is the picture real? I copied it from April 13 Anandabazar Patrika.

Why I think this picture may not be a real thing is because on that very day, that is April 13, there have been couple of fatal road accidents involving the private buses.

There is enough cause to feel deeply skeptical and cheated about the way the traffic moves in Kolkata. Here below I reproduce an article in ABP of April 10. Click the image below.

It’s written in Bengali, and I’m sorry I cannot give the translation. If you can read Bengali, you’ll have a good grasp of what life is in today’s Bengal.