“Apart from making illegal exits, the residents of the areas located along the highways also use the wrong side of the roads to commute, which often causes mishaps,” points out Dr Rajender Singh, a resident of Rohtak.Ījay Godara, a local social activist, maintains that the illegal exits should be closed and strict action taken against the offenders in order to avoid road accidents. Hence, the residents of villages and localities as well as owners of commercial establishments situated along the highways have been making exits in the highway dividers for their convenience and commercial interests. Such exits often lead to road accidents, but the authorities concerned have failed to take action against the offenders.

Passionate in their admiration, merciless in their scorn, and never anything less than fascinating, the dispatches of The Proud Highway offer an unprecedented and penetrating gaze into the evolution of the most outrageous raconteur/provocateur ever to assault a typewriter.A number of illegal exits have been made in the dividers on different national highways passing through Rohtak. In letters to a Who's Who of luminaries from Norman Mailer to Charles Kuralt, Tom Wolfe to Lyndon Johnson, William Styron to Joan Baez-not to mention his mother, the NRA, and a chain of newspaper editors-Thompson vividly catches the tenor of the times in 1960s America and channels it all through his own razor-sharp perspective. Overview: Here, for the first time, is the private and most intimate correspondence of one of America's most influential and incisive journalists-Hunter S. The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967 by Hunter S.

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