Letter to a Friend – Delhi Pollution,
T oday, a dear Mech 71 friend, Anand Julka, sent an email about the severe life threatening air pollution of Delhi. He is now a renowned philanthropist who has an entire building and graduate school named after him in a leading US University. He quoted from a report that mentioned, “India’s rapidly worsening air pollution is causing about 1.1 million people to die prematurely each year and is now surpassing China’s as the deadliest in the world.” Needless to say, the air pollution deaths are mostly in polluted cities like New Delhi and not in the vast countryside and smaller towns that still enjoy good quality air. My reply to him had enough useful information on the topic for others too, therefore I am sharing it with a wider online readership here just as I had shared two other email letters earlier in this blog, Dear Julka To get an idea of the gravity of situation, perhaps one need look no further than our own class group that still lives in Delhi, a w...