From Delhi’s perennial grey haze to the startling toxic spikes in Kolkata, 2025 proved that breathing clean air in India is no longer a right - it’s a luxury postcode. If you looked at India from a satellite in 2025, you’d see a country cleanly sliced in half by its air quality. On one side, a northern and eastern belt wrapped in a persistent, dirty blanket of particulate matter; on the other, a southern peninsula that still remembers what blue sky looks like. Imaging by Sentinel-5P satellite (BBC News) The data from 2025 didn’t just shuffle the usual suspects - it revealed a terrifying widening of the pollution map, proving that the "bad air" problem has officially migrated beyond the capital. The Chokehold: Delhi, NCR, and the Kolkata Anomaly Credit: NDTV For years, Delhi has held the dubious crown, and 2025 was no different. With an AQI averaging 357 and ...
From Delhi’s perennial grey haze to the startling toxic spikes in Kolkata, 2025 proved that breathing clean air in India is no longer a right - it’s a luxury postcode. If you looked at India from a satellite in 2025, you’d see a country cleanly sliced in half by its ...
From Delhi’s perennial grey haze to the startling toxic spikes in Kolkata, 2025 proved that breathing clean air in India is no longer a right - it’s a luxury postcode. If you looked at India from a satellite in 2025, you’d see a country cleanly sliced in half by its ...
From Delhi’s perennial grey haze to the startling toxic spikes in Kolkata, 2025 proved that breathing clean air in India is no longer a right - it’s a luxury postcode. If you looked at India from a satellite in 2025, you’d see a country cleanly sliced in half by its ...