Living amidst the murk


A heavy blanket of haze covers motorists travelling in Palangkaraya, capital of Central Kalimantan province on Indonesia's Borneo island, on October 12, 2015

THERE are few things more dispiriting than returning from a holiday where you had unexpected blue skies to a homeland where you can hardly see anything outside the plane window.

What quirk of climatic times do we live in when I was travelling in a temperate country which had more sunshine than the tropical one which I was born and raised in?

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Opinion , Marina Mahathir , columnist

   

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