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Delhi AQI: Why there's no song and dance around India's killer air

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Summary
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78% Informative

The toxic air pollution and recurrent winter smog in Indian capital Delhi frequently makes headlines.

Pollution is largely missing from Indian pop culture.

Author Siddharth Singh , author of The Great Smog of India , says it is a "big failure" that air pollution is not a prevailing narrative in India .

Aims to humanise India 's air pollution crisis and humanise the people behind statistics.

Poems and photos on social media have been most effective in capturing the gravity of air pollution.

Singh says one of the reasons for the relative shortage of such stories could be that the people creating them are "insulated" due to their privilege.

VR Score

75

Informative language

69

Neutral language

79

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

45

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

medium-lived

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