Delhi's honking, smoking, littering residents perhaps need this gentle reminder.
On a busy Friday the roads are crammed with honking Tata Sumos, the local sports-utility vehicle.
Some drivers were in the habit of honking their horns constantly as they drove in the darkness, ostensibly to warn bicyclists and pedestrians of their approach.
No music or television or honking car horns.
Then, last week, after a month of silence, I heard one again, honking outside my window. And another, and another.
Cars zoomed helter-skelter, honking belligerently.
Nobody sits back in their chair at the office and dreams of cluttered streets, honking horns and gridlocked traffic.
A car whizzed past, honking its horn.
The dealer can disable a car's ignition system, or trigger the horn to begin honking, as a reminder that a payment is due.
Flights are re-routed, and people are banned from honking car horns near the exam rooms nationwide.
No more care honking, engine-running sounds on Xuanwu street. No more swarming, pushy crowds at the street cross at Xidan. Gone was the smoke above the Ethnic Palace.
Inside of each of you, there are sirens, honking horns and gridlock.
The stillness of the night of quiet can hear the sound of honking worm.
