Note traffic coming towards us on both sides of the car

Pondicherry must have its own special brand of traffic rules. We were in the middle lane going one direction and we had a lane of traffic on either side of us going the other direction, for no particular reason that I could see. And it wasn't that we were going the wrong way down a one way road. We sure waste a lot of usable road space in the U.S.

A man in India told me once: "We don't drive on the left of the road, we drive on whatever is left of the road." Yep, I believe that now.  I've learned to either distract myself by closing my eyes or getting out my camera