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Driving in Delhi is some people's idea of a nightmare. Kerala's monsoon turns its roads into a rut zone. How bad could it be to drive from one to the other? We decided to give it a shot.

You might call driving on the en Quadrangle the road less taken, but actually it is the road much taken, full of traffic night and day. Much of it is truck traffic, though. As we headed past Rajasthan, the familiar Delhi number plates gradually disappeared. We took a detour to Jaipur, since the highway allows you to bypass both Jaipur and Ajmer, straight to Udaipur. Since we had diverted from the Quadrangle, smaller roads led us to Udaipur. The drive became a winding, verdant climb. Some time after passing Udaipur, we were back on the highway.

On the second day, we crossed unobtrusively into Gujarat. Unobtrusively because, unlike Rajasthan, which proclaims its heritage with aesthetic stone gates, Gujarat welcomes the road traveller with a plain signboard painted in red.