If you lived in India or any other pro-honking nation, you’d agree that honking deserves its own behavioural psychoanalytic study in humans. In this complex field, a lot of questions still remain unanswered.
1. As soon as the light turns green, why do all the vehicles behind the first row start honking?
2. Why do some people think honking all the way from Point A to Point B help them reach faster? Should Obsessive Honking Disorder be made a medical condition?
3. Which company makes those loud fancy horns that scare the hell out of pedestrians? And is “Catcher in the Rye” the favourite book of everyone who buys those horns?
These and several such questions gave rise to an organization called ‘Mission Peace’, who also aim to reduce other sources of noise such as faulty silencers, cars with hip-hop concert stereo systems, construction during the night, etc. The Karnataka Police and the Bangalore Traffic Police extended their support and allowed us to start things off by launching a ‘No Honking Day’ on the 10th of every month. These were the first of a long line of creatives to come in this mission.
