India’s Transport Minister, Nitin Gadkari, hates the sound of car horns, and the blare of sirens from ambulances and police cars. He is working on a new law that will replace them with the sounds of Indian musical instruments — tablas, violin, flute, the mouth organ and the harmonium. The World’s Marco Werman imagines what traffic might sound like if the law is passed.
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