'We have to feed our children': Delhi's rickshaw pullers battle on through city's toxic smog

FILE PHOTO: A man sweeps inside a bus depot on a smoggy morning in New Delhi, India, November 16, 2021. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - For over 40 years, Inder Pal Singh has been ferrying passengers around Delhi's old city by cycle rickshaw in searing summer heat, and increasingly, choking winter smog. He says he has no choice but to carry on despite government advice to stay inside.

The city of 20 million was the world's most polluted capital for the third straight year in 2020, and air quality has hit hazardous levels there and in other parts of northern India for much of this month.