0 comments

Two cool follow-up e-mails to my post on Kelly Martin's article, A Polluted Internet. First, from the author himself!

Hi Nick,
Glad you liked the intro to my article. :) But there are no narrow streets or buildings with windows in your blog's photo. Here are a couple from my website:


image5 (my favorite at sunset), and

delhi_PB0100970_002 (the same area, taken just two years later)

Cheers,
Kelly Martin

This next message makes me want to enable comments on my blog.

Hi Nick!

Once every week I checkout all my favourite blogs, one of which happens to be yours. I was pleasently surprised when I saw what you were reading. I lived and grew up in New Delhi from 1980 to 1999 ( I am now in Chennai, capital of Tamil Nadu state). By the early 90's Delhi had become a hellhole with nearly 17 million people and 5 million vehicles and the highest rates of respiratory diseases in India.

But as Kelly Martin mentions a lot has changed in the past 6 years and it is now one of the cleanest cities in Asia. All public transportation runs on CNG and Indian vehicles confirm to the latest European emission standards and are three times more fuel eficient than US automobiles.

Yours truly,
Deepak Pande
Chennai
India.