Rajat Ubhayankar

Name: Truck De India

Publisher Name: Simon and Schuster

Genre: Travel Literature

Description:

About Truck De India: Imbued with humour, empathy, and a keen sense of history, Truck De India! Is a travelogue like no other you've read. It is the story of India, and Indians, on the road. Think truck drivers, and movie scenes of them drunkenly crushing inconvenient people to their gravelly deaths come to mind.

 “Maalik ki gaadi, driverka paseena, chalti hai Sadko par banker haseena.” If one line could encompass this entire book, this would be it. Loosely translated to “the owner’s car, the driver’s sweat, she struts on the highway like a belle,” this calligraphy on a truck is probably doing rounds of India’s highways as we speak. Rajat Ubhaykar’s Truck De India! Is a journey into the gentle giants that rule the country’s highways, fuelling the economy night by night? - Outlook Traveler.