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Letter to BS: Crackers, farmers not the only reason for air pollution

We tend to somehow ignore the bigger causes of our misery that haunt us throughout the year

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Women performing Chhath rituals in polluted Yamuna.

Business Standard
Your excellent editorial (“Action plan for Delhi”, November 6) very logically puts the currently contentious issue in the right perspective. Indeed, the huge nuisance created by Diwali crackers happens only for a couple of days every year and the stubble burning, a major irritant, also gets highlighted for a month or so around the same time but all of us — governments and the society — make these two virtually the only culprits, the two big demons playing havoc with the lives of people in NCR! This is clearly — as your editorial argues — a wrong and an unbalanced