@kdfrawg heh… My parents have a policy of feeding the birds around their home. They've always got a big flat bowl full of water from them to sip from and left overs go to them the next morning.
They usually have an Eagle or two, a couple parrots, a few crows and a lot of sparrows prancing about the garden… :)
Hence my sensibilities are rather different.
That said, Delhi summers are brutal and so if they can show some kindness to the birds around them, it's all the better for the environment.
// @phoneboy