Part 17 – February 22, 2015.   

News flash:       

• It's our daughter Jennifer's birthday.  Happy birthday Jen, and to Gene Hamlow and George Washington too.
• Delhi has the most polluted air of any city in the world.
• And, on another note, in a city that is predominantly Hindu and Muslim, all drivers are Christians.

How do we know these assertions to be true? 

First, we have a copy of Jen's birth certificate, and Gene told us so, and the calendar tells us about George..

And, from the February 7, 2015 edition of The Economist, “The lorries are a chief reason why Delhi’s air is now more toxic than any other city’s on earth. Admittedly Beijing has a worse reputation, with its visible smog from particulates of 10 microns or smaller, known as PM10. Delhi’s grim distinction is that it has even higher levels of PM10, as well as of the smaller particulates, PM2.5, that are more likely to kill because they go deeper into the lungs. Levels of PM2.5 in Delhi are routinely 15 times above levels considered safe by the World Health Organisation. New data suggest that, on this score, Delhi’s air has been 45% more polluted than that of the Chinese capital for the past couple of years.”

Believe me, you can smell and see it most in the morning but it’s bad all day.  Here is a photo of a passenger jet flying low over the 73 meter tall Qutab Minar in Delhi just after noon today.  The plane was invisible until directly overhead.  This is a direct shot into the sun - see it?

With regard drivers being Christians in a non-Christian country, it’s just logical.  Every driver honks his horn constantly from the time he start his vehicle until he turns it off.  There must be bumper stickers on each vehicle in Hindi that say, “Honk if you love Jesus.”  There certainly are signs on the backs of trucks in plain English that say, “Honk please.”

Here are some more pictures of Qutab (or Qutb or Qutub) Minar.  It used to be taller but they took the top layer (Smith's folly) off the cake because it did not look right.  It now sits on the ground just a little way away.

Terry and Sandy