Air purifiers to fight Delhi pollution: When the state abandons public good

There are certain indispensable tasks of the state, rather than it being the mai-baap of all domains

The severe air pollution in parts of north India has led people to find private solutions to a public problem in the form of air-purifiers. This follows the purchase of water purifiers by households because of poor quality of water supplied by civic authorities. Do these solutions represent the failure of our state? The author writes about how the state has abandoned public good in this Business Standard special.

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What is the connection between the air that we breathe, the on-going massive advertising campaigns for indoor air-purifiers and relationships between citizens and the state? It is a history of the