Congratulations, Delhi, on earning a very special Darwin Award

It's hard to choose between millions of stupid people, so we're giving the prize to an entire city

Dear Post-Diwali Delhi,

Hello from a house near Naggar, Himachal Pradesh, which is surrounded by what people tell me is ‘blue’ sky and ‘green’ trees. As a long time Delhi resident I have only an indistinct memory of these colours.

Getting here took fourteen hours on a big, bouncy bus. There were reclining seats and large windows. There was a civilized silence through the night, interrupted only by gentle snores and urgent vomiting. We almost perished several times, but the law of the Indian mountain is that two buses the size of swimming pools can pass each other on a