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Delhi model of air pollution has reached Goa. Nobody is responsible for air quality

Last December, Panaji’s average PM2.5 level was 88 micrograms per cubic metre, 18 times the WHO limit.

The onset of Delhi’s fabled winter once began with the saptaparni. The potent fragrance of the Alstonia scholaris, or the Indian devil tree, was meant to drive one to madness. But, accompanied as it was by a pleasant chill in the night air, the torturous summer and monsoon firmly in the past, it only ever signalled joy to Dilliwalis. Now, the honeyed scent sets off a different kind of madness: If the saptaparni has bloomed, can the arrival of the season of deadly air be far behind?

Every November, a fresh obituary for Delhi is written. The sky turns a sullen grey, while the AQI ticker on TV screens goes from flaming orange to throbbing maroon. We read complex explainers about the difference between PM 2.5 and PM 10 as easily as watching a reel cutaway from The Great Indian Kapil Show. Citizens fighting for their right to breathe are ranged against citizens fighting for their right to burst crackers. Once a publication puts a photograph of India Gate,........

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