Congress playing hardball in seat-sharing talks with INDIA bloc partners betrays stale delusions of grandeur. It has drawn wrong conclusions from Lok Sabha election results and conveniently overlooks its Haryana fiasco. Congress must come out of its make-believe world and accept that it needs allies for survival, and vice versa.
Toxic air is back in Delhi. It stinks of dirty politics
Situation normal, all fouled up—that’s the state of Delhi’s air pollution response. Criminal neglect of the public health crisis shows in the cyclical return of toxic air each passing year, despite promises by governments, interventions by courts and public’s appeals for help. The dirty politics is stinking up the air.
Mr. Shekhar Gupta, Ms. Shailaja Bajpai, Ms. Rama Lakshmi and others in the editorial board of The Print might as well join the Congress officially and act as advisors to Rahul Gandhi.
At least this charade of “unhyphenated” journalism will end.
It need not be like this. The West has made remarkable progress in cleaning up its air and water. China, late to start, has also made worthwhile progress. A better equation between LG and elected government would help. For Indians to lose upto twelve years of lifespan, children’s lungs being permanently damaged, should spur all stakeholders to action.