India, Dec. 14 -- Yoga guru Ramdev has suggested some exercise and curtains as ways to fight air pollution at a time when the Air Quality Index is consistently breaching reading limits, landing in worse than 'severe' category, in Delhi and other parts of northern India in particular. He also sees air purifiers as "ameeron ka chonchla" - 'a fad of the rich'.

Ramdev was speaking at a TV channel's special show on setting the country's agenda, when he suggested yoga exercise to fight diseases in general. The Aaj Tak anchor asked him how one could exercise outdoors when the pollution is so high.

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