The art of dipping – a vestigial issue…

The dark shadows of the age old tamarind trees beckons. The solitary road stretches endless as far as eye can see. Not a soul stirs unless absolutely necessary, quiet, dark and absolutely still the monotony broken only by the steady thumping of the cars engine married to the sweet strum of a guitar from the radio. And lo behold a blinding light all of a sudden blinding instantly heads in your direction.
Groping the light stem beside your steering column wildly trying to dim your lights, seeking for a venue of escape, from the blinding power of a thousand candles, at the same time focusing to stay on road. Whew it sure is a handful.
This is the experience any Tom, Dick and Harry driving at night on the Indian road faces. The seemingly endless flow of headlights from the opposite direction is anything but steady, coming at you with no consideration whatsoever. This case is all the more severe with truckers and long distances buses. Sitting cozily high above the glare of smaller vehicles they hardly even try to dip their headlights for cars coming in the opposite direction.
There was a time when motorist had the consideration of dipping their headlights when oncoming traffic was spotted. Any motorist traveling at night knows the importance of dipping their headlights. This simple action of shifting your high beam to low when another car comes at you from the opposite direction helps considerably in maintaining sight of the road.
Well unfortunately even as the world is progressing at an increasingly hitech world there are but a handful of motorist who still follow the age old traditions of dipping. Dipping a phenomenal action so very simple in execution all but forgotten, for what?