India, Dec. 1 -- India faces a nationwide air pollution emergency that transcends Delhi.

It violates Article 21's guarantee of life and dignity.

The situation demands urgent judicial intervention and societal awakening.

India is living through a quiet, invisible genocide. It does not provoke agitation, does not occupy primetime discourse, does not shake governments: Yet it kills more Indians each year than riots, terror, epidemics and natural disasters combined.

The insistence on reducing toxic air to a "Delhi-NCR problem" is not merely a misdiagnosis, it is a national delusion. Air pollution in India is not regional, seasonal or circumstantial and is no longer merely an environmental challenge.

It is the gravest constitutional crisi...