Mappillai 7 - White man’s privilege in Chennai’s spiral traffic

It’s time for that Italian manoeuvre to beat the traffic.

Cross over, start a U-turn by rolling down the window,

waving my arm wildly at incoming traffic and warn I’m

going to go for it.

Then shove the nose of the car into the opposite

lane, force an auto-rickshaw, a moped, a bike and a car

to slam on their brakes and let me ease into their lane,

shaving a mil…