If you travel through Delhi these days, the atmosphere seems rather like a hill station – cool and misty – until you smell the air. When you smell the smoky air you know that the air isn't remotely hill station like; it is laden with lethal, poisonous molecules that are doing untold damage to us all. The situation is grim, but maybe humour can focus some much needed attention on the subject of #DelhiPollution?
The situation is not. Right about now many of us develop scratchy throats, watery eyes, coughs and other long term problems as well.
This time of year is always bad, with the cooler air, stubble burning in surrounding states and the festive season.
Many of the tweeple posted pictures taken before and after Diwali. Though the firecrackers may only be for a few days of the year, they compound an already extreme problem.
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Now masks are important again.
Delhi pollution achieved what COVID did not manage to do, said some of the tweeple.
River pollution of Yamuna is another problem however the toxic foam seems to be just another photo op for some of us.
Yes, it sucks
The start of the song is – kya mausam hai – which is bad in the current context. But we do all want to be far, far away.
Someone makes this joke on twitter each year – because the smog is awful each year.
The pollution is constantly causing irreparable damage to our lungs.
While some say that the surrounding states are responsible, some say it is the faulty policies of the centre and the state government that are responsible..
The Delhi smog is literally a killer – simply living with the #DelhiPollution is like being a chain smoker.
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