India, Nov. 12 -- That which doesn't kill you only makes you stronger cannot be said about the growing amount of pollution in the Northern part of India. The statistics paint a rather gory image of what we inhale now. While I write this article and breathe simultaneously, I might have already been subjected to smoke equivalent to smoking a cigarette.

While the capital faces the wrath of burning incidents taking place elsewhere, it is hard to believe that the hue and cry rest only on one factor. Geographically speaking, when the surrounding air is cold, and the atmosphere is already contaminated with PM, then the site of smog is a common phenomenon. And that is the exact reason why we're unable to see clearly with our naked eyes, both liter...