The myth called Wireless World

Air purifiers posed quite another danger to our health by way of loose wires trailing through the rooms, writes the author

Panicked by the pollution in Delhi, my son searched online and ordered giant-sized air purifiers for all the rooms in the house. And so we joined thousands of Dilliwallahs obsessively monitoring the status of air quality inside the house. Whenever she was not on the phone, my wife kept a sharp eye out to check whether the light on the machines was red or orange — it was so rarely blue — often also calling the office to provide us updates on the “moderate” quality in one room while it remained “very poor” in another. But whether they were scrubbing