CRY FOR my Delhi. This is my city—my family records many generations who have lived here. It is also where I have spent most of my professional career advocating for clean air, clean water and everything that we need for a basic well-being. We have garbage everywhere; potholes; no traffic discipline; congestion, illegal buildings and parking that add to the chaos of road management; water supply that is struggling to keep up with demand; a forsaken Yamuna river, which is a receptacle of sewage; and of course, the now infamous unbreathable air. I could go on, but all residents of Delhi know what we are living through. So, we need to ask, if the complete, visible and much-discussed breakdown of urban services that we are witnessing today can be reversed, or if the blight has gone too far? I ask this not to crib over collapsed infrastructure, but to ensure that we learn from this experience and do not create another Delhi in India. In other words, we ensure that middle-India cities do not become mega-messes as they grow—even implode...
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