Doesn't make any sense right, National Geographic published an article about our city claiming it to be the dirtiest. I was born and raised in Delhi. Meri Delhi Meri Shaan, I guess its sounds good and looks good when printed on a wall. It breaks my heart to see Delhi getting nastier.
"From the skies above to the ground below, Delhi is polluted. This Indian territory, which includes the capital city of New Delhi, is half the size of Rhode Island, and is home to twice the population of New York City" - National Geographic.
“The Yamuna river, by all pollution parameters, is dead. It has just not been officially cremated.” - Sunita Narain is the director of the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE),
I think its high time to come out of houses and clean the neighborhood. If everyone does their share it wont be so bad. In one of the episodes of Styamev Jayatey some one talked about how to recycle waste. So we have lot of brains but we don't want to use. May be it wont have a positive impact on any political party. If its not Cricket or Bollywood we don't care. We can suffer and let the next generations suffer. No clean rivers left no clean land left and no clean air to breath. Plant trees but how many, we don't want to change our habits but want trees to keep on cleaning environment.
When was the best time to plan to tree, 20 years ago. When is the next best time to plant a tree, today.
May be its easy to read and write from my clean office. Most I am doing is penning my thoughts here. At least we look for trash cans when we visit India, try to do the right thing. But and end up throwing trash here and there when there's no other option. So many big Malls beautiful landscapes and so many monuments, all going to waste if we are not even appreciating our surroundings. Everyone says the same, what can we do. Normal people are doing what they can do clean there homes. Why do I feel everything is so political, that nothing will happen if its not beneficial to any political party. Clean India, was just a campaign just for election. Why we don't see any efforts except basic pictures clicked with a broom every now and then just for newspaper.
If you look at other countries in the world that are taking major steps to use solar and cleaner energy resources. I think some major steps need to be taken to help people breath better. Breaks my heart to see Delhi suffering. It is not limited to Delhi if we are polluting the air we are polluting Global atmosphere.
A recycler looks for metal in Bhalswa, a giant garbage dump that burns constantly, emitting toxic fumes.
Impoverished people in India often have no housing options other than living next to open sewers, like this one in Noida, a city on the border of New Delhi.
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