Highway to heaven - Sepia Mutiny

September 21, 2005

Highway to heaven

Highway signs from Ladakh:

Himank is responsible for construction of GS roads and other related infrastructure for Army, Air Force and government organisations located within the Ladakh region consisting of Leh and Kargil districts. Project Himank looks after the famous areas of Drass, Kargil, Batalik, Siachen Glacier and Chushul. The project sector encompasses world’s second coldest region of Drass, world’s highest motorable road astride Khardung La, world’s highest battle-ground of Siachen Glacier and Pangong Tso Lake at 14500 ft located across India-China border. [Link]

(thanks, Ankush)

Photos

POSTED BY manish @ 1:32 PM

15 comments

1 · Sumit Chachra on September 21, 2005 2:42 PM · Direct link

TOO cool..... hehe

2 · timepass on September 21, 2005 2:51 PM · Direct link

I love these signs. The road to Darjeeling, notorious for bad driving, also has these types of signs. As a kid, reading those sings was the only interesting thing I could do on the long and winding road.

I'd sometimes wonder whose job it was to come up with these rhyming slogans.. there's poetry in them hills, I tell you.

3 · RC on September 21, 2005 2:58 PM · Direct link

Too bad... most of those driving like "hell" cant read this funny signs. !!!

I am not trying to be a wise-a$$ ..just a note. The signs are preety funny. Someone had fun creating them.

4 · RC on September 21, 2005 3:01 PM · Direct link

hmmm.. on second thought in that region most drivers would be the Army drivers. So they would be ABLE to read the signs.

5 · Sonia on September 21, 2005 3:22 PM · Direct link

this is great =)

6 · Pattie Kaur on September 21, 2005 4:49 PM · Direct link

OOOhh, this is a hoot! i love finding these things online....and i always make sure family emails me these signs when they find them!!

7 · Saheli on September 21, 2005 7:33 PM · Direct link

Pico Iyer had a great riff about these in his last book, Sun After Dark.

8 · Angie on September 21, 2005 7:40 PM · Direct link

Make love not war but nothing while driving.

LOL. Is this a problem in India? I think couples should probably start living separate from their parents, so they don't have to use the car as a bedroom.

9 · Nita P on September 21, 2005 9:28 PM · Direct link

haha these are hilarious! thanks for posting

10 · Vishal on September 22, 2005 2:01 PM · Direct link

There's a big road in Nagpur that has signs just like these. I was there last year and I remember them being even funnier than the ones posted. If anyone can get pictures of those please post them or send them my way.

11 · Ludwig on September 22, 2005 11:39 PM · Direct link

:) Nice pics, thanks for the post. Brought back memories of a trip to Ladakh last year. There were a few more in this vein, bordering on the rude/sexist. One that comes to mind, "Don't gossip! Let him drive!!"
There was another one, really hilarious, on the way from Khardung-la to Leh, but alas its forgotten now...

12 · sourav on September 27, 2005 4:41 AM · Direct link

These are emotional signages... brilliant!!

13 · Abi on September 27, 2005 6:18 AM · Direct link

Came to this very nice post through Sunil's comment at Charu's blog. My favourite is not a real road sign, but one I found in a Ponnappa cartoon in the Bangalore edition of the Times of India (a looong time ago):

In the cartoon, you see two people from behind them; one of them is driving his car. Through the windshield, you also see a sign. It reads:

Caution: Road Ahead.

14 · seetha on June 30, 2006 1:02 PM · Direct link

one i saw when visiting my mom's home in ernakulam, kerala- overtakers beware of undertakers.

15 · h s chaturvedi on June 7, 2008 2:12 PM · Direct link

my visit to kargil on 23rd May 08 has beeb quite amazing one and pleased to know that i travelled to Drass said to be the highest road of the world,thanks to to the Himank for roads and signs all over the roads

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