Sunday Drive by Hormazd Sorabjee: Romancing the road trip

Who would have thought that driving is safer than flying? Certainly not in India, where someone dies in a road accident every four minutes. But the pandemic has turned everything on its head. With the virus still lingering, a lot of people find it safer to spend long hours (even days) on our highways, risking life and limb, rather than sit next to a stranger on a short flight. Compared to a plane, a car is your own private space, and it’s this form of isolated travel, which only a car can offer, that has unwittingly rekindled the romance of the road.