From the archive record
City of Rats: New Delhi has more rates underground than perhaps any other city in India: Future plague capital of India? Rats scurry around at the floor of a flyover, looking for discarded morsels of food. One rat nuzzles another rat. Rodent tenderness? With our hurried pace of lif, we do not realize how many rodents live under our feet! Did you know that we live in the 'City of Rats'? Yes, that is New Delhi, and Naoroji Nagar and the Ring Road are rat central with a massive rat population underground! The entire city is criss-crossed with chuha networks going from one house to another from the nether reaches of the city, using the sewerage networks, water pipes, fiber optic and gas pipelines and more... They scurry off when they see humans and daylight but that does not mean they are not