{"id":5649,"date":"2016-05-11T00:44:22","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T19:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=5649"},"modified":"2016-05-11T00:44:22","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T19:14:22","slug":"delhi-air-pollution-solution-cycle-eco-warrior-greta-thunberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=5649","title":{"rendered":"What if We Stopped Complaining about Delhi\u2019s Pollution &#038; Fought It? I Decided to Cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<span class=\"dropcap\">T<\/span>he aroma of water and sand wafts through the breeze from the pretty lake nearby. It\u2019s almost fall season in New York, so there is a nip in the air and a rich freshness too. I\u2019ve been to the city before but it\u2019s the first time I\u2019m falling in love with it, as I cycle about the lanes of Manhattan. With the wind in my hair, I feel a lot like Anne Hathaway from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/amazon-prime-original-new-york-times-modern-love-is-lost-in-translation-therapy\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Modern Love<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> minus the great music and that overcoat from heaven. The freedom to discover the city \u2013 to slow down or veer off every time something catches my attention \u2013 a bookstore here, a coffee shop there is oddly refreshing. But above all, I sense great pride in being a part of the two-wheeled, non-carbon-emitting vehicle tribe.\u00a0\n\nWhen you cycle, you realise that not only are you experiencing the very essence of a city, seeing its veinous structure up close, taking in the sights and sounds in the most \u201corganic\u201d way, but you also are being a bit of an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/earth\/ridhima-pandey-greta-thunberg-united-nations-climate-action-summit\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">eco-warrior<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. No wonder you end up riding with your nose in the air.\n\nMaybe it is time to channel my inner <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/earth\/greta-thunberg-world-climate-strike-school-strike-for-climate-sweden\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Greta Thunberg<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, I tell myself. If that teenager could sail across the Atlantic Ocean, I could cycle \u2013 not only in New York but also in New Delhi, the gas chamber which I call home. I am thrilled with myself. Ready or not, here comes Delhi\u2019s woke new cyclist.\n\nA month later, I land in the capital, ready to be the change the city desperately needs. It\u2019s easy to be deterred by the cars zipping past you, flouting <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/new-traffic-rules-fine-driving-violations\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">traffic rules<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, but I am a woman on a mission. No honking or threats of \u201cJaanti hai mera baap kaun hai?\u201d, were going to stop me now.\u00a0\n\nI have big plans \u2013 to ride the cycle to work, to cycle to the sabzi mandi, to the metro station, to the park, to the Friday night house party. With my head held high, all dolled up in the latest winter accessory \u2013 by which I mean the face mask \u2013 I unlock my rented cycle. The building <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/watchmen-twitter-handles-chowkidar-proof\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">watchman<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> looks at me the same way you look at someone who gifts you a box of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/grub\/soan-papdi-homage-to-the-nice-guy-of-diwali-mithais\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">soan papdi<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> during Diwali for the fifth year in a row. He\u2019s in shock. \u201cMa\u2019am, you\u2019re only going around the colony, right?\u201d he asks, very concerned.\n\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\"><p>Maybe I\u2019ll become the Afroz Shah of the cycling revolution in Delhi. I am turning over a new, environmentally friendly leaf.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\nI feel like <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/rambo-last-blood-review-sylvester-stallone-has-passed-his-expiration-date\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rambo<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at the start of an action sequence. I sling my bag over my shoulder and reply in my most take-no-prisoners voice, \u201cNo. I\u2019m going to a park.\u201d His head snaps back, his jaw drops. Sadly, I can\u2019t film it for Instagram. And just like that, I am off!\n\nI feel great as I cycle down the lanes of my housing colony toward the main road. Maybe Bunty next door will see me and get inspired. Maybe I\u2019ll become the Afroz Shah of the cycling revolution in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/earth\/delhi-smog-air-pollution-privileged-flee-the-city\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Delhi<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. I am turning over a new, environmentally friendly leaf. Travelling with zero-carbon emissions feels great. But all this optimism is short-lived, much like the city\u2019s clean air. Riding in Delhi\u2019s colonies is rather deceiving, like a politician\u2019s election promise that gives you a false notion of a rosy future.\n\nAs soon as I reach the main road, the silence and memories of my dreamy New York cycle ride are shattered \u2013 first by a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/bmc-officials-mumbai-roads-potholes\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pothole<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (circa 2013, judging by the girth and the muck surrounding it) and then by blaring horns and screeching tyres. What hits me next is the oily, masala-infused smell from the nearby anda-pav stall. I try to shut my eyes and attempt to replace it with the aroma of freshly baked pastries wafting from pretty cafes, but I\u2019m jolted to reality after I\u2019m thrown up in the air by a speedbreaker the size of Qutub Minar. Whoever said you can\u2019t make a mountain out of a molehill?\n\nJust short of landing flat on my face, I somehow balance myself. But a little mishap isn\u2019t going to run over my new-found \u201cgreen\u201d spirit. I pedal along until I reach a busy junction, my nose still up in the air, even as I pray fervently that the mask is doing its job. But I forget that this is Delhi \u2013 I have no business riding if I haven\u2019t developed 360-degree vision already.\u00a0\n\nOn a Delhi road, a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/outdoors\/manali-downhill-mountain-biking-daredevils-india-adventure-sports-outdoors\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">cyclist<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is an anomaly. This is true even though thousands of people cycle long distances to get to their workplaces \u2013 they are more or less invisible. I get the same look that a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/jnu-students-do-all-day-ask-economics-nobel-abhijit-banerjee\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JNU student<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> would at a BJP rally. Cars decide to speed past me, a bikewallah gives me \u201cthe cut\u201d. Even a fellow cyclist \u2013 the doodhwala \u2013 is hostile. \u201cMadam, yeh rasta hai, garden nahin,\u201d he yells as he cycles past me. I\u2019m desperate for some approval; I get none.\u00a0\n\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\"><p>I\u2019m about to lose my cool, but I remind myself of the larger cause \u2013 sustainability, and what I need to desperately sustain was my cool.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\nCity workers brushing pavements, impatiently gesture at me to move aside, pushing me toward the whirlpool of Delhi\u2019s mean main road traffic. Banished from the curb I dearly cling to, I have to navigate through crowded lanes to make a right turn. The tinkling of my little cycle bell in the din of dozens of vehicles sounds like a panelist on an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/satire\/india-pakistan-arnab-goswami-pulwama-balakot\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Arnab Goswani<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> show \u2013 even I can barely hear it. As I make the turn, I almost crash into a bike coming toward me from the wrong end. The biker glares at me. What business do I have being an obstruction on the road? I\u2019m about to lose my cool, but I remind myself of the larger cause \u2013 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/earth\/indian-mom-middle-class-sustainable-living\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sustainability<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and what I need to desperately sustain was my cool.\n\nI somehow reach a traffic signal. It\u2019s probably the best place to observe the one thing about the Delhi traffic culture that you wouldn\u2019t find in most cities. The light turns green and the assault of the horn begins. Some beautifully crafted expletives, few of which I\u2019ve never heard of, cut through the dusty morning din. Whoever passes me, scoffs. \u201cArr\u00e9 madam, rasta mat block karo,\u201d is the upshot of most of these.\n\nBy the time I reach the park, my optimism has depleted like the city\u2019s air quality. My eyes are watering, my throat is itchy, and though I haven\u2019t cycled more than three kilometres, it feels like getting to the end of the fucking world.\n\nYet, I am not the one to give up. I do this over and over again. On most days, I come home defeated \u2013 sometimes because of the puncture caused by the pothole, sometimes because of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/delhi-world-famous-cow-hostels\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">herd of cows<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who refuse to move, and sometimes with a racing heart after almost being run over by a DTC bus. But then there are a few good days. Now my building watchmen warns me of every new khadda that comes up outside the gate. The other day I overheard my neighbour \u2013 Pammi Aunty telling her daughter Bunty, \u201cTu bhi cycle-vicycle chala.\u201d And five days ago, the doodhwala gave me an approving nod.\u00a0\n\nI\u2019m definitely not becoming Greta Thunberg or Afroz Shah of the Delhi cycling circuit. But maybe I\u2019m ushering in a small change in my own life. I\u2019ll find out when I step out. Right now I\u2019m nursing my infected throat.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While cycling in New York, I felt a sense of great pride in being a part of the two-wheeled, non-carbon-emitting vehicle tribe. I realised that maybe it was time to unleash my inner Greta Thunberg on Delhi, a city desperately in need of some eco-warriors. 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