Epilogue · Squirrel efforts
We came home safe. Cyril asked: what next?
Of everything the family saw, the thing that worried six-year-old Cyril most was not the 54°C at Ajanta or the snow at Gulmarg. It was the way people drove.
"They were not as dangerous as people who knew to read and write, but did not know what they were doing, because they just don't care. Do you?"Cyril, age 6
Every four minutes, Cyril said.
That was the count when he made his slides. By 2022 it was one death about every three minutes. See what the road looks like now ↓
The squirrel and the bridge
When Rama's army was building the bridge to Lanka, a little squirrel rolled in the sand and shook it off between the stones, again and again. The monkeys laughed. Rama stroked its back, and the squirrel has carried three stripes ever since.
No one is too small to help build a bridge. Cyril took his model road and his test to Naipunnya Public School, then to riders at Kumili, Thekkady, Vagamon and Nelliyampathy, and to 185 people in two days at Subhyatra 2017 on Marine Drive, Kochi.
Cyril's question to you
Do you know what this white line means? That yellow one? The dotted one? How fast can you go on our roads? Understanding that you don't know is the beginning of knowledge.
