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.
