Ubhaykar, Rajat. <br/><br/>
Truck de India :  a hitchhiker's guide to hindustan 

 - New Delhi  Simon & Schuster  2019 
 - 309 p.,  16 unnumbered pages of plates :  
<br/><br/> "The share auto I squeeze into next seems unusually vulnerable after a night in the truck - too compact, too low down. Perhaps, these are the usual side effects of prolonged riding with the king of the road, I think to myself. But it is only when I fill in ‘truck’ as my mode of transportation in the hotel ledger at Udaipur does the utter ludicrousness of my endeavour truly hit home".<br/><br/>Think truck drivers, and movie scenes of them drunkenly crushing inconvenient people to their gravelly deaths come to mind. But what are their lives on the road actually like?<br/><br/>In Truck De India!, journalist Rajat Ubhaykar embarks on a 10,000 km-long, 100% unplanned trip, hitchhiking with truckers all across India. On the way, he makes unexpected friendships; listens to highway ghost stories; discovers the near-fatal consequences of overloading trucks; documents the fascinating tradition of truck art in Punjab; travels alongside nomadic shepherds in Kashmir; encounters endemic corruption repeatedly; survives NH39, the insurgent-ridden highway through Nagaland and Manipur; and is unfailingly greeted by the unconditional kindness of perfect strangers." 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789386797643 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Travel<br/>Travel - India<br/>Truck drivers<br/>Automobile Travel.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>915.404  / UBH