Key Points
Air quality levels plummeting may be front-page news in New Delhi this week, but on its pristine golf courses where peacocks roost among medieval tombs, the game carries on with a few adaptations..
They sometimes resort to shouting to help these fearless first golfers get a general sense of their targetand then hide behind the nearest tree..
Intrigued by how well it worked in keeping away the persistent Delhi sore throat that has replaced Delhi belly, I interviewed one of the four founders of the Gurgaon-based firm Yoga Air..
In a sign of how the capitals pollution problems are increasingly characteristic of cities across north India and Kolkata, Rahul Sehrawat spoke to me from construction-crazed Mumbai, which now has AQI readings that rival Delhis on some days..
As Yamini Aiyar, head of the Centre for Policy Research, pointed out last November in a column for Deccan Herald, such high-end solutions for those who can afford them are another example of the well-off in effect migrating further away from the realities faced by the rest of India, a widening gulf that can be traced to the grossly inadequate provision of public services by the government, especially in the fields of education and medical care. ..
