For several days after Diwali, a cocktail of life-threatening chemicals hung over Delhi and its adjoining areas. An orgy with fireworks, despite Delhi’s already foul air, had pushed pollution levels to the highest they had been in almost two decades. Some of the pollutants scaled such peaks that they couldn’t even be measured!
In conditions like these, major cities elsewhere in the world would declare a health emergency and swiftly take steps to bring down pollution. But in Delhi, the state government run by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) did nothing even as the. . .
