Indian car drivers, rising rage and the evolution of ‘hit and run’ culture

The Thar—and by extension, other bulky SUVs—has come to signify anarchy in India, in the same way that the BMW once signified a dangerous apathy and indifference. If Sanjeev Nanda and his BMW represented the entitled carelessness of wealth, today’s drivers represent its weaponised rage. The dead are almost always delivery workers, farmers, two-wheeler riders, and pedestrians.