NYT Correspondent Exits New Delhi's Dark Cloud

A panoply of health hazards in an overburdened city.

GardinerHarrisHed_FeaturedAfter a three-year stint in South Asia, Gardiner Harris is this week relocating from India back to Washington. As he explained to New York Times readers over the weekend, it was a matter of his family’s well-being:

My wife and I were both excited and prepared for difficulties — insistent beggars, endemic dengue and summertime temperatures that reach 120 degrees. But we had little inkling just how dangerous this city would be for our boys.

We gradually learned that Delhi’s true menace came from its air, water, food and flies.

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