adbrite, I loved your rules for driving in India! To those rules I'd add, "if you're the passenger, do NOT look out the front window". Two weeks ago we made a road trip from Delhi to Agra to see the Taj Mahal, and the trip there and back was half the experience.
At one point someone posted on the India forum asking why they couldn't find any car rental firm in India that would rent them a car without a driver, because they wanted to drive themselves. They were firmly talked out of driving on their own.