00:00 Right. Charles, I don't want to use the word an outside view
00:06 because you have spent so much time
00:07 as a travel lens and breadth of India.
00:10 As a commuter, as a person
00:15 who has seen a different world also altogether,
00:18 what would be your suggestion that India can work on,
00:22 be it commuting, be it the road discipline
00:26 or the societal set up?
00:27 Is there something that you observe
00:29 that India can improve upon
00:30 or something that is really very rare and new in India?
00:33 Okay. So, 30 years ago, if you visited Sydney,
00:37 you couldn't see the sky. It was brown, okay, in the day.
00:41 At night, you couldn't see the stars.
00:43 In Sydney. In Sydney.
00:44 In the middle of the CBD of Sydney.
00:46 Oh, Sydney. Yes. Today, you can stand there
00:48 and look up and see a blue sky in the day, dark blue,
00:51 and at night, the stars.
00:52 Overlooking the Opera House.
00:53 Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's no excuse for Delhi.
00:56 I understand there's a problem
00:58 about burning in Punjab,
00:59 and at this particular time, the smog,
01:02 the pollution comes from there.
01:03 But for the rest of the year, road dust.
01:06 Just get some people to fix up the side of the roads.
01:10 India, Bharat has everything here.
01:14 It can be done.
01:15 Just we have to get the netters on both sides of politics
01:18 to do their job, and I will.
01:20 I did do a municipality, Delhi municipality.
01:24 I became Ottawa Babu,
01:25 and I did discover something that was very unique there,
01:28 and get me into trouble, but I'll say it.
01:30 I found one area of Delhi
01:33 where the federal member, the Lok Sabha member was BJP,
01:38 the MLA was Ahmadi, and the Nigam Parishad was Congress.
01:43 And then I found another part of Delhi was the same.
01:46 Okay. BJP, Ahmadi, and Congress.
01:50 But there was a huge difference between these two areas.
01:53 And at first, I was puzzled why.
01:56 I'm talking about cleanliness, less road dust,
01:59 the parks were maintained.
02:01 One particular area, and I won't name them,
02:03 you can work them out.
02:05 One, all three levels were ladies.
02:08 The other, all three levels were men.
02:11 So if Delhi wants to get cleaner,
02:13 we need to see more women in the parliament.
02:16 And in leadership.
02:18 And that's what Prime Minister Modi has introduced also.
02:21 We are looking at women's reservation,
02:23 33% seats being--
02:25 Yeah, but reservation, fine,
02:26 but political parties can also put a bit more effort
02:29 in choosing women candidates.
02:31 And it's really needed.
02:32 I mean, it is tragic today.
02:35 This is, I come back to India all the time,
02:38 but this time I've noticed in Delhi, wherever I go,
02:41 the pollution is so high.
02:42 One of the side effects is that even young people
02:45 just lose their temper.
02:48 Normally in India, people are very well-mannered,
02:50 and even if they have a problem, they consume it,
02:52 and they take it home with them.
02:54 But now people are exploding.
02:55 The air quality has to be, and it can be done.
02:59 It's not complicated.
03:01 It's not a question that there's too many people living here.
03:04 If the right systems are put in place,
03:07 challans are issued there, a lot can be done.
03:10 Sydney did it, so many countries have done it.
03:12 Bangkok's done it, Tokyo's done it.
03:15 Now it's Delhi's turn.
