Chennai (formerly Madras), capital of the state of Tamil Nadu, population over 7,000,000 (that is 70 lakh. One lakh = 100,000 and one crore is 100 lakh. Large numbers here, like government expenditures in rupees, at the rate of about 50 to the U.S. dollar, are not reckoned in millions or billions.)Anything and everything goes in the same space on the streets. Busses, trucks (lorries), cars, 3-wheel autorickshaws, 2-wheelers carrying entire families, bikes, pedestrians, oxcarts, stray cows, goats, dogs, all going in every way they know how.
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