Musings on Dust - The Health Hazard of Delhi

Musings On Dust in Delhi

Many studies on Delhi Pollution point to Road Dust or dust per se, as the major culprit.

Swaminathan Ankaleshwaria made an interesting, out-of-box suggestion about finding ways to gainfully use massive quantities of dust, if mechanically swept by equipment expected in operation by April 2016. He recommends finding  ways to convert the dust so collected to sand /aggregates for  use in construction.

Such a solution also has many attendant benefits, like lesser quarrying needs around Delhi.

But that begs a question : where does the dust come from?   

At another level, a senior scientist told the High Court, that geography of Delhi is such that it will have varying dust levels of dust, in different times of the year and climatic conditions. Under some conditions it can be 10 times more than permissible levels.

For Geography, one should read, proximity to the great deserts of Rajasthan – the Thar. There have been numerous studies on ‘desertification’ of Delhi- creeping desert.

Hills of Aravalli are the natural barriers: many have strongly recommended the ‘greening of Aravalli” as a barrier to the dust that floats into Delhi.  There is attendant benefit of cooling the atmosphere and re-charging the ground water of Gurgaon and environs.

Kashmir

"Pakistan does not consider Kashmir to be a geographical or border dispute but a dispute due to the unfinished business of Partition of the subcontinent in 1947," Mr Sharif writes in his letter to Ms Andrabi, who heads the outfit Dukhtaran-e-Millat.

Saadat Hasan Manto had posed the existential dilemma of a newly minted Pakistani soldier, in 1947 :
"Were Pakistanis fighting for Kashmir or for Kashmiri Muslims?" And Rub Nawaz wonders "If the latter, why not fight for the Muslims of Hyderabad and Junagarh?" And "if this was purely a war for Islam, why weren't other Muslim countries fighting alongside of them?"    These matters, he concludes were far too subtle for the intelligence of an ordinary soldier.  

Anupam Kher's March for India

I am aghast at the slogans chanted during the March. “…….deserved to be thrown across Wagah border” “Dhongi sahityakaron ko, jute maro saalo ko”.

What did Anupam Kher expect for fronting the likes of YOGI Adityanath JI and his ilk? Doesn’t that prove the case of Award Returnees?

The labelling of this debate as ‘tolerance’ or ‘intolerance’ has obfuscated the “intimidation” by the fringes of Sangh Parivar’, that is being protested against.

Bhairavi singh being called names….Just imagine the fright the poor girl must have experienced.

Anupam Kher extended an apology to Bhairvi Singh; there is some decency left in his otherwise probably uxorious behavior over the last few weeks.

And our dear PM has also revealed his hand by receiving the leaders of this March. “Indian culture goes beyond tolerance, and talks of acceptance”, the PMO said. Do they mean Indian Culture enjoins us to accept whatever the ruling dispensation dishes out?

The PM is an excellent CEO and the Indian economy sorely needs his touch and shepherding. It will be a shame if the Indian masses miss out on a chance to earn square meals with dignity, due to his not so tacit (any more) cultural ethical and moral disabilities.

It appears that the PM wishes to make the “body Indian” strong and prosperous but lobotomized and an arm amputated.

Bihar has given him its verdict.