The Haze

This last week here we've had the 'Haze'. Farmers or plantation owners burning forest to clear land for agriculture in Indonesia, cause severe pollution in Singapore and Malaysia from the smoke. It shows up as a thick haze in the air, down to ground level, that reduces visibility severely. It causes respiratory and other problems in people, especially with prolonged outdoors expsoure.  The Delhi-ites in our batch and others from similarly polluted cities were being very blase about it but as Rajesh Rangarajan (one of my classmates) was explaining  "...this is normal vehicular pollution, combined with particulate matter from the smoke, and with dioxins from the burning coating the particulates ... ". Or some such. Not Good.

Photo taken off the Straits Times website.