E19: Mini: Horn OK Please
Jun 22, 2026 · 4 min · 3 segments
Atul & Sid are back with another mini episode - this time about honking on Indian Roads !
Jun 22, 2026 · 4 min · 3 segments
Atul & Sid are back with another mini episode - this time about honking on Indian Roads !
You know, whenever you're on the road, people honk for various regio- reasons.
It's an expression, you know- Emotion ... emotion.
It's an emotional thing for all of us, right? And the...
What I find absolutely entertaining when I'm on the road, though it's not always fun entertaining, is that everyone has their own levels of expression.
So when you're honking once, it means something.
Mm.
When you're honking a quick two times, that means something else, and then varying degrees of that.
That- that's...
It's a You know, I honk only when I'm very angry, so it's absolutely...
Uh, y- you- you can see a connection between my expression and the honking.
It's a good...
It can be a 8 to 15-second long honk, which basically means I am pissed off.
Oh.
That's the one.
Yeah.
Got it.
So it's interesting.
Mm.
And there, nobody uses the horns.
After I moved to India, everyone's got the horn on, so much so that when I started driving, it wasn't natural for me to, you know, press the horn.
So I used to wait for the pedestrian cross, or I used to wait for the car to speed up.
I don't honk.
But the passenger next to me is saying, "Sid, honk, honk, honk the horn." It's an expectation.
You gotta tell the guy.
You know, whenever you're on the road, people honk for various regio- reasons.
It's an expression, you know- Emotion ... emotion.
It's an emotional thing for all of us, right? And the...
What I find absolutely entertaining when I'm on the road, though it's not always fun entertaining, is that everyone has their own levels of expression.
So when you're honking once, it means something.
Mm.
When you're honking a quick two times, that means something else, and then varying degrees of that.
That- that's...
It's a You know, I honk only when I'm very angry, so it's absolutely...
Uh, y- you- you can see a connection between my expression and the honking.
It's a good...
It can be a 8 to 15-second long honk, which basically means I am pissed off.
Oh.
That's the one.
Yeah.
Got it.
So it's interesting.
Mm.
And there, nobody uses the horns.
After I moved to India, everyone's got the horn on, so much so that when I started driving, it wasn't natural for me to, you know, press the horn.
So I used to wait for the pedestrian cross, or I used to wait for the car to speed up.
I don't honk.
But the passenger next to me is saying, "Sid, honk, honk, honk the horn." It's an expectation.
You gotta tell the guy.
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