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Wishes for 2023: Longing for clear blue skies amid India’s pollution woes

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A busy intersection in New Delhi, which has some of the worldÕs worst air pollution, on Dec. 6, 2022. Half of emissions in Delhi come from vehicular traffic, but the dozen coal-fired power plants still operating around the region feed also help feed the toxic smog that hangs over the city each winter. (Saumya Khandelwal/The New York Times)

No one escapes the effects of pollution, which is also no longer a Delhi winter issue.

PHOTO: NYTIMES

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- As I stare out of the window of my home in Gurgaon, a Delhi satellite city, all I see is a thick blanket of smog.

I wish for clear blue skies.

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