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I am an Asthmatic. The guys in the photo are not. They are healthy, young and resilient. I am 73 and frail. I came back from Goa to Delhi by air on November 5. Two days later I was eating corticosteroids instead of squid, Pan D instead of vindaloo, antibiotics instead of fish thalis, ingesting […]
Read More Let Delhi breathe & earn a livingI am an Asthmatic. The guys in the photo are not. They are healthy, young and resilient. I am 73 and frail. I came back from Goa to Delhi by air on November 5. Two days later I was eating corticosteroids instead of squid, Pan D instead of vindaloo, antibiotics instead of fish thalis, ingesting […]
Read More Let Delhi breathe & earn a living“The Great Smog of India”, Siddharth Singh’s book, is in the genre of everything-the-intelligent-person should know about air pollution in India. It’s attractively written with an easy, breezy style. It instantly sets the reader at ease that she is not about to be inundated with complicated scientific models and graphs about climate change. The author […]
Read More Book Review: North India’s smoggy futurephoto credit: indiatoday.com. How many 2000 cc plus private diesel cars can you spot in this randomly selected grid lock? Imposing a green cess on large diesel cars is populism at its worst. Less than 5% of private cars fall in this category and they have fairly competitive exhaust parameters because diesel engine technology has […]
Read More Don’t demonise dieselCan accidents be completely avoided? Can our environment be monitored; analysed and controlled to make everything predictable? Astrologers will tell you they have been doing exactly this for ages. Not everyone believes them. An astrologer has predicted that India’s next PM will be a bachelor. This had raised the hopes of Rahul, Bhenji, Amma, Didi […]
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