{"id":10876,"date":"2019-11-08T18:20:36","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T09:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/nov\/08\/delhi-india-toxic-politicians-held-account-pollution"},"modified":"2019-11-08T18:20:36","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T09:20:36","slug":"delhis-toxic-politicians-must-be-held-to-account-for-this-deadly-pollution-aruna-chandrasekhar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=10876","title":{"rendered":"Delhi\u2019s toxic politicians must be held to account for this deadly pollution | Aruna Chandrasekhar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s climate movements are growing, but a unique political deadlock in the capital is creating a destructive inertia<\/p>\n<p>Fly out of Delhi and you can see it: a band of grey smog, so thick it blots out the sun. Tune in carefully and you\u2019ll hear it, too: a subtle symphony of snorts, coughs and wheezing.<\/p>\n<p>To the untrained nose, Delhi\u2019s air is a potent bouquet. High notes of charred biomass mingle with sulphurous remnants of Diwali bonfires, with base notes of subsidised diesel, burned plastic and coal.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/nov\/08\/delhi-india-toxic-politicians-held-account-pollution\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s climate movements are growing, but a unique political deadlock in the capital is creating a destructive inertiaFly out of Delhi and you can see it: a band of grey smog, so thick it blots out the sun. Tune in carefully and you\u2019ll hear it, too: a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[326,353,65,62,433,466,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-delhi","category-environment","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-pollution","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10877,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10876\/revisions\/10877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}