Jan. 25 Each time I looked down during flight, there was a smoky blue haze. Found similar conditions at Calcutta. After booking in at the Oberoi Grand Hotel (at about $15.00/day including meals), I went to the roof for some photography. Photographed sacred cattle wandering about streets in heavy traffic, rickshaw boys, native carpenters at work, over views of city. This is a smoggy place. One can see many smoke stacks belching smoke. The ride into town was depressing—noise, smog, littered streets, garbage, paper, feces, miserable human beings living in miserable shacks. Every body & water looked filthy and disease-ridden. The crow is still with us but the pale gray mantle of the Delhi animal is now almost as black as the rest of the plumage. Saw also the kite, myna, and many English sparrows. Inevitably English sparrows were seen warming their "tails" on the fluorescent lights in the airport building at Delhi, before sunrise. 8-10 birds were flitting about in and out of the building. A few sights on the way to town—water buffalo standing in large pool, being scrubbed by a man. Groped & nearly made men bathing at one of water faucets along street. Naked children. Men squatting facing buildings, urinating. Sacred cattle wandering about, lying in the streets, on sidewalks, etc., generally having the run of the place. Most are ash gray and have a hump. All I've seen so far are females. Cow dung patty cake industry; the cakes not only spread on the ground but stuck to trees walls and tree trunks.