Every day, roughly four hundred people in India leave their homes but they do not return.  Almost all of are killed in road accidents around the country.  India has the terrifying and dubious distinction of being the country with the highest number of road accident deaths anywhere in the world.  The tragic death of a newly appointed cabinet minister and a prominent leader of the BJP, Mr. Gopinath Munde a few days ago in the heart of metropolitan New Delhi is just one of the latest in a series of chilly reminders about the realities on the Indian roads, where anything goes, might is right and the law of jungle prevails.  It is seriously appalling how anyone can get a driver’s license and become a Rambo on the road in this country.  Even my neighbours thirteen years old son has a free run of the family car, in fact, the parents take a lot of pride in the fact that their son can handle a four wheeler at this age, never mind that he could grievously hurt a few on the streets.  The traffic rules are observed more in breach than practice in this country.  In most cases, the violations of rules don't incur a fine of more than hundred rupees, that is less than two dollars, whereas in the US it could be anywhere between a hundred to a thousand dollars.  But here even if the cops catch you DUI, all you have to do is just fish out a few crisp currency notes in his face and you have made the day for the poor sod!  From not wearing a seat belt, to overcrowding, to overtaking from the wrong side, everything is par for the course in a place where human life has no real value with people falling off the bus tops, people falling off train tops, people tumbling down from construction sites.  There have been quite a few instances where some big shot or high and mighty mowing people down while they were sleeping on the footpaths by their shiny SUVs and then trying to buy their way out of trouble. The mind reels at the senselessness of it all.  With India adding ten million vehicles every year, the situation is only going to get worse if we don’t make safety and following the rules and regulation a national and moral mission.