In the nineties it was common to spot reckless fish cart riders causing accidents in the busy thoroughfares of Chennai. These riders, mostly fish vendors and load deliverers, used to zoom past on tricycles that were illegally fitted with mechanised engines. When the police and transport department officials failed to rein them in, a frail man, ‘Traffic’ Ramaswamy, decided to take up the task of checkmating the violators. A...
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