Looking Back: Burma/Myanmar

I took this picture in Thanlyin, Myanmar, of a bicycle parking stand. I remember the days when many people in India also got around by bicycle and cycle rickshaw. Cities like Delhi and Agra were quite clean as a result. Now automobiles have made the air unhealthy to breathe. In the small towns in Myanmar, cars are more and more common every year. Soon they, too, will be choking in the exhaust and the roads will be too dangerous for the bicycle, one of history’s greatest inventions.