Environmentalists wrote to BCCI president Sourav Ganguly on Tuesday, requesting him to consider moving the first India-Bangladesh T20 outside Delhi as the rapidly deteriorating air quality could prove a health risk for the players and thousands of spectators.
Air Pollution is not a political issue because it carries no religion, caste or colour. It claims all, and yet leaves no trace that could be profitable at the hustings.
Breathing here is injurious to your health book review: Confronting the silent scourge
Hardly anyone seems to care about the slow poisoning of an entire population, but the author of this compelling work does
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Traffic policemen wear masks to protect themselves as air quality deteriorates in New Delhi. (File Photo | PTI)
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This book appears in the mail box on a day the air quality index (AQI) in many parts of my city hits the ‘very poor’ range of 300 and above. We have become inured to such news, more so with the Covid backdrop, just as we fail to protest when some neighbours begin to assault our eardrums with the noise of diesel generators pumping black smoky death into the air we breathe. That twin assault of noise and deadly particulate matter, the finest (PM 2.5) of which enter our lungs and from there surreptitiously into the blood stream and organs, triggering various diseases, forced me to confine my elderly parent