Environmental pollution is not only a phenomenon of industrialization and, therefore, modernity, it has taken an enormous toll in human life. The Indian capital ranks among the most polluted cities in the world but India’s Hindu rulers are in denial about this modern plague.
It is clear now, within days of the joyous installation of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government at the Centre with dances and record sales of sweets in its bastions, that it is going to be an extremely short-lived wonder, unlikely to survive beyond 31 May...