{"id":75123,"date":"2025-11-11T12:42:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T03:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/11\/delhi-air-pollution-protest"},"modified":"2025-11-11T12:42:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T03:42:31","slug":"i-cant-breathe-in-this-city-inaction-over-delhis-suffocating-pollution-sparks-rare-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75123","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I can\u2019t breathe in this city\u2019: inaction over Delhi\u2019s suffocating pollution sparks rare protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The failure by state governments to do anything about pollution means it has often been met with apathy. But at a rare protest anger and frustration were rife<\/p>\n<p>As a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/21\/delhi-awakes-toxic-haze-diwali-pollution-season-begins\">familiar smoky evening haze<\/a> gathered over Delhi, the crowd began to assemble in their hundreds. Mothers and children, students, retirees and environmentalists were all united by a basic but desperate demand: the right to breathe safely in India\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDelhi is not a liveable city any more, it\u2019s a death trap,\u201d said Radhika Aggarwal, 33, an engineer who joined the protest on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/11\/delhi-air-pollution-protest\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The failure by state governments to do anything about pollution means it has often been met with apathy. But at a rare protest anger and frustration were rifeAs a familiar smoky evening haze gathered over Delhi, the crowd began to assemble in their hun&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"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":[65,62,466,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-india","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\/75123","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\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75124,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75123\/revisions\/75124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}