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There are few things Delhi residents hate more than the green and yellow auto rickshaws and their drivers who buzz around the capital disobeying traffic rules, randomly refusing to take fares and ripping passengers off whenever they can. There are more than 55,000 auto rickshaws in Delhi - motorized versions of the cycle rickshaws of old - and, after government agencies and the police, the drivers "are seen as the most corrupt and crooked lot in Delhi," according to the non-governmental agency NyayaBhoomi, which focuses on improvements in the city's water supply, sanitation and transport and which has studied...
...That may be why, last November, Delhi's rickshaw drivers decided to do something about their image. With a little help from NyayaBhoomi they launched a campaign that promised a new, improved attitude. NyayaBhoomi says that its research shows that an honest driver can make just as much money as his cheating cousin and encouraged rickshaw drivers - about 50 took the bait - to go completely straight and see what happened. "We want to build a new relationship of trust," went one slogan. Another, which was stuck onto the rear of compliant auto rickshaws, read: "I am proud...
...brain had, in defiance of theory, learned to interpret visual information. One year after surgery, she could recognize her family's faces and identify objects. And that's a very big deal. Dr. Suma Ganesh, a pediatric ophthalmologist at the Dr. Shroff's Charity Eye Hospital in Old Delhi, India, used to believe that operating on blind children past the critical period was hopeless. But Project Prakash showed her that just isn't the case. "Even if a blind kid, after an operation, manages to see up to three meters, it makes a big difference," Ganesh says...
...talk of goodwill springing from horror, it's unlikely to speed the peace process much, which slowly resumed after months of inaction following last July's bombings of commuter trains in Mumbai. Brahma Chellaney, a professor at the Centre for Policy Research in Delhi, says there are bigger issues to overcome once the mourning has passed. "A normal relationship is not going to happen unless it's founded on closer economic and energy integration," he says. Perhaps, but at least the dialogue is no longer as easy to derail as trains...
...talk of goodwill springing from horror, it's unlikely to speed the peace process much, which slowly resumed after months of inaction following last July's bombings of commuter trains in Mumbai. Brahma Chellaney, a professor at the Centre for Policy Research in Delhi, says there are bigger issues to overcome once the mourning has passed. "A normal relationship is not going to happen unless it's founded on closer economic and energy integration," he says. Perhaps, but at least the dialogue is no longer as easy to derail as trains...