Click to play videoMumbai: It was not just another manic Monday in Mumbai. It was also 'No Honking Day', which meant that on Monday, no horns in the city. But is it really possible to drive around Mumbai without honking?
Cab drivers say it is an impossible feat to achieve and that if they don't honk, people won't simply move and give way.
However, 34-year-old Jacob Kurrien has decided to take up the challenge. Everyday, he drops his daughter at his parents home and then takes part in a 27km long, nerve wracking motoring marathon from Mulund to his office in Lower Parel.
On Monday he said he was willing to try the drive without using the car's horn.
Jacob, who is the Deputy Vice President of HDFC Bank says, "It requires a lot of discipline. Unfortunately most of us have terrible road sense and there is no lane discipline. That leaves you frustrated."
On reaching the halfway mark to his office — Chembur's dreaded Priyadarshini traffic signal — he explains, "Traffic here comes all the way from Navi Mumbai and is headed all the way to town, so it becomes a bottleneck and is every motorist's nightmare."
A persistent Kurien however, succeeds in making it to Lower Parel without honking even once and he says, "If I can do it, so can everyone else."
But the campaign did not turn out to be the resounding success it was hoped to be, with horns blaring all over as usual and no notable difference in the city's decibel levels.
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