Not impressed with delhi - Loved Punjab!!

Aishah

Hear! Hear! Gollum and Jaz! It's got my vote!

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Been here for almost 3 years now and love the city. It takes time to get to know the place and where everything is but it is a great city with good restaurants, lots of shops, a lot of history and much greenery. Also, having come from the UK, sunshine most of the year - hooray!!!!!!!

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Prashant.M

Anyway it starts out compressed, so tap it (literally ) at the source I say.

OMG I can imagine somebody waiting with... what? Maybe a plastic cover connected by a pipe to a cylinder and then jumping on the poor cow just as it is about to rip or belch (dangerous eh?). Must be one of the worst jobs in the world .

Biogas is actually produced by fermenting organic waste products.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biogas

From: http://www.seedtree.org/biogas.html
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Biogas (methane generated from human and animal waste) has been called Deep Green Energy for its many benefits in rural human ecology.
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brownboy66

how would you even begin to describe the mileage? 1 kilometer per.....? And how about speed, 0 to 60 in .....?



yep...its a slow morning!

Prashant.M

And there is no need to add odour to this gas.

brownboy66

I surrender - you win!! (I'm reminded that I usually remonstrate with my son for this kind of humour).

Prashant.M

Oh well, I am a child at heart .

Aishah

And thanks for the links Prashant - will check them out at leisure later to increase my knowledge! Also talking of odours, the sewerage smells one gets at frequent intervals around India are not much different to Rotorua, a tourist area in NZ, noted for its hot pools, boiling mud, geysers etc. and a terrific sulphurous stink!!!

New-South-Welshman

Let's not forget dangerous Maori gangs. Going off topic, but I've only been to south island NZ and it is one of the most beautiful places ever.

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Aishah

Sth Island - where I was born NSW! And yes, beautiful!! And totally OT my brother lost 2 front teeth to the Mongrel Mob years ago.. they wanted his motorbike but he fought a fierce battle aided by some hippies who came to his rescue!

oneheart

I havent been to india, going in dec. It's interesting to hear about the comparison.. Almost going to give Punjab a miss, thankfully my trip is extended bcos i couldnt get the tickets and i'm going amritsar! Someone commented that new delhi doesnt hav such a bad sewage smell as compared to old delhi. Is it bcos New delhi is built by the British and therefore the sewage system design is better? keke.. jus curious..

Aishah

Maybe because it is cleaner and more spacious - wider streets, extensive tree plantings and grass etc. Also it seems to me that drains are well sealed in New Delhi. Old Delhi is a rabbit warren of fascinating alleys etc. harder to clean, haven't looked at the drainage system there, too busy watching where I'm going in the throngs and rush of the place! A real Delhiite might enlighten us...

shashank.aggarwal

Old Delhi is not called Old for no reason...its several centuries old and the infrastructure was with requirements of that period..however now it is overcrowded with highest density of population you might have seen and also Highest density of whole sales markets per kilometer that you would come across...

Almost all the streets have some wholesale market..once street is for paper, other for electrical, one for electronics, one for food, one for clothes, one for spices, one for FMCG items..once for cycles, one for books, one for comics...huh...all the major wholesale markets of Delhi, North India in most cases, Entire India in Several cases and south east Asia in few of them..

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machadinha

... Leading me to a question, Shashank and others (and agree it's probably just because it's an old part of town): Where I live the rules of competition would have you preferably not be very close to someone selling the same services as you. Most anywhere in India however (as in some other countries), you'll find similar vendors or services conveniently tucked together all in the same block or street or area.

Seems counterproductive to a Westerner (handy for a consumer though, albeit hard to choose between shops). Have you any insights on the logic behind it? I could never quite figure it out. May just be an oriental mindset though, I know "exotic" foodstores here don't seem to mind being next door all in a row. Just always had me wondering.

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shashank.aggarwal

The most strong point is that it creates a market..and customers prefer a market than a shop...for eg...if I have to purchase a shirt...if I go to a place where there is one shop, then my choice would be limited to that shop...however if there are several shops in same area then I will simply go to that place as I know that I have lot of options.. so it actually helps in increasing the overall footfalls..

Second point is : There is a Shopkeeper A who sells spices and is very famous in the trade. Shopkeeper B wants to enter into same business, he would prefer to open a shop near A as he knows that he would be able to get most attention of the prospective customers if he stays near A, as A already has lot of customers coming to that place...and if a customer is somehow dissatisfied with the services of A, he will surely give B a chance..OR a new customer comes looking for A, might find B first...

I am no economist, but these are simple examples that flow down in business families..I hope they would you explain the situation better...