India, Dec. 14 -- Another week with a familiar scene: a protest advertised as a "harmless" campaign for clean air at India Gate, but behind the scenes, the same woke hypocrisy. A Delhi court had to send several so-called "environmental activists" to custody after investigators found links between them and the banned radical Maoist outfit, as videos allegedly connected them to networks long involved in Naxalite mobilisation. This episode of the so-called air pollution protest was never about the smog in Delhi, but reflective of a sinister trend wherein malicious actors are relaying and smuggling sympathies for a radical agenda behind the camouflage of a civic cause.

If pollution was their genuine concern, one wonders where this outrage wa...