Spectator by Seema Goswami: Every Breath You Take...

It’s that time of the year again. The papers are full of pictures of paddy fields in Punjab being scorched by farmers, with the smoke wafting over to the national capital. The Delhi government is threatening to implement the odd-even scheme (in which cars with odd number plates ply on one day and those with even on the other) to reduce traffic pollution. And the hapless denizens of the city are rushing to the markets to buy air purifiers for their houses and cars, and masks for their faces when they venture out into the smog.