A family carries belongings while looking for a rickshaw amid heavy smog in New Delhi.
But for Ramavtar Singh there is no escape: like many of the city’s poorest, he eats, sleeps, and works outside. Delhi’s smog peaks from October to February, routinely exceeding WHO recommendations for PM2.5 – tiny and harmful airborne particles – and some days registers levels more than 20 times safe limits.
“I love to come here for my meals. It is like getting a quick oxygen shot,” the office worker says, surrounded by creeper vines and a faux stream as he breathed lungfuls of filtered air circulating through expensive filters.
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