Letters to The Editor — October 22, 2025

Letters to The Editor — October 22, 2025

letters to the editor

Toxic air

It is intriguing to enactment that Delhi, of each the cities successful India, is ever successful the quality connected relationship of terrible aerial contamination aft Deepavali. A person of excavation surviving successful Delhi begs to disagree with this oft-repeated conception astir the mediocre Air Quality Index (AQI) successful Delhi. According to him, each different month, farmers successful Punjab and Haryana pain cultivation discarded starring to smog ever truthful often successful Delhi. This person besides disagrees with the contention that vehicular postulation is simply a large contributing factor. I deliberation the authorities should mull implicit the ground-level concern by inviting people’s opinions connected however champion AQI levels beryllium controlled and lone past determine connected semipermanent measures to power aerial contamination successful Delhi and different cities.

Govardhana Myneedu,

Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh

The argumentation of permitting alleged “green crackers” portion banning regular ones is akin to banning beedis but allowing filtered cigarettes — cosmetically progressive but substantively hollow. In a metropolis that is already gasping, this is simply a favoritism without a difference. If taste unit and economical stakes could beryllium overridden earlier, they tin beryllium overridden now, particularly erstwhile the wintertime inversion is already trapping India’s aerial nether a toxic lid.

The alleged “middle path” simply licenses a controlled deterioration.

Harsh Pawaria,

Rohtak, Haryana

Escalatory

The Defence Minister of India precocious issued a veiled menace to Pakistan, which sparked a antagonistic from the Pakistan Army chief. This speech of rhetoric is possibly reckless and endangers southbound Asia’s fragile peace. Already scarred by struggle successful Afghanistan, our portion cannot spend this benignant of escalatory brinkmanship. There ought to beryllium diplomacy and dialogue.

P.H. Hema Sagar,

Secunderabad