India, Nov. 27 -- When much of the talk about air pollution is focused on Delhi, standup comic and actor Vir Das on Thursday, November 27, posted a sarcastic video on the condition in Mumbai too. The video showed him surrounded by smoke inside a room - apparently using visual effects to make his point.

"Morning from Mumbai, everyone! Hope everybody's doing well. I'm not going to cough at this point. Our lungs have adapted. It's fine. Oh, you think this is the outside? No, this is what's happening inside you," he quipped.

This also happened to be the day when the Bombay High Court said authorities could not just blame ash clouds from the recent volcanic eruption in Ethiopia for air pollution in the metropolis. The Air Quality Index (AQI)...