This is what life is like in the smoggiest place on Earth

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This is what life is like in the smoggiest place on Earth

21 January 2016

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I spend most of my year waiting for January to arrive. It is the peak winter month in Delhi, bringing relief from the heat in the , home to 25 million people. It is a time when I usually reclaim the outdoors, organise picnics in the park, walk or run rather than drive and bask rather than hide.

But no more. In recent years Delhi has been judged . The – often six to 10 times the internationally accepted upper level for the most harmful…

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