No escape from Delhi’s toxic air

An early morning jogger and India Gate, a national war memorial, shrouded in a haze caused in part by air pollution in New Delhi. — Anindito Mukherjee/The New York Times

NEW Delhi wakes up to toxic smog and goes to sleep in the same harmful conditions.

In the hours between, the 30 million ­residents of India’s capital region trudge along with chronic headaches and itchy eyes, symptoms of this rising superpower’s failure to provide its people with a most basic need: breathable air.