{"id":401117,"date":"2025-11-24T10:28:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T10:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/401117\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T10:28:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T10:28:16","slug":"leave-delhi-go-in-debt-if-you-have-to-london-based-indian-techie-cuts-short-visit-over-toxic-air-urges-exodus-netizens-react-delhi-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/401117\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Leave Delhi, go in debt if you have to\u2019: London-based Indian techie cuts short visit over toxic air, urges exodus; netizens react | Delhi News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\u2018LeaveTechie cuts short visit as he could \u2018taste, smell pollution\u2019 NEW DELHI: A London-based Indian techie has ignited a fierce debate online after urging people to \u201cleave Delhi, even if you have to go into debt\u201d, describing the capital\u2019s worsening air pollution as nothing short of a health emergency. Kunal Kushwaha, a senior developer advocate at CAST AI and founder of WeMakeDevs community, shared his stark experience on X after landing in Delhi for a short trip. Having lived in London for a few years, he said the contrast in air quality hit him badly as he could ‘literally taste and smell the pollution.’<\/p>\n

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Kushwaha admitted he had grown up in Delhi and never truly felt how bad the air was while living there. \u201cYou see people walking without masks, going for morning runs… I thought, how bad can it really be?\u201d he wrote. He said the moment he stepped out of the airport, even an AQI of around 200 hit him hard: ‘Sore throat, and a feeling like needles in my lungs. I could actually feel the pollution entering my body.’ he posted adding that he was cutting his trip short and flying out the next day.Debate erupts on social media His post quickly went viral, drawing over 10 lakh views, along with thousands of likes, reposts, and heated arguments. Many agreed with his warning, calling Delhi\u2019s toxic air a silent, slow-moving public health disaster. But others argued that \u201cleaving\u201d was a privilege. One user wrote: \u201c\u2018Leave Delhi\u2019 is great advice for the tiny percent who can. The rest of us need the air fixed, not a relocation plan.\u201d Another commented: \u201cIt\u2019s extremely worrying to see what\u2019s happening in Delhi. But millions can\u2019t just relocate. By all means protect your health\u2014but the solution has to be systemic.\u201d A third user slammed authorities for inaction: \u201cTrue\u2014and companies, schools and other non-important institutions are still open like it\u2019s nothing. It\u2019s clearly a health emergency, but the government isn\u2019t doing what it can. Not even WFH is mandatory.\u201dDelhi\u2019s air quality near \u2018severe\u2019 Meanwhile, the capital\u2019s air quality deteriorated further on Sunday, touching 391\u2014dangerously close to the \u2018severe\u2019 category. A combination of low wind speeds and falling temperatures trapped pollutants close to the surface, choking the city under a thick layer of haze. Despite repeated warnings from environmental experts and public health researchers, the capital continues to struggle with the annual winter pollution cycle driven by vehicle emissions, construction dust, thermal power output, waste burning and stubble smoke from neighbouring states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Techie cuts short visit as he could \u2018taste, smell pollution\u2019 NEW DELHI: A London-based Indian techie has ignited…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":401118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[178667,12821,12820,12822,12823,746,189913,189911,189914,159,12824,189912,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-401117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-delhi-air-pollution","9":"tag-delhi-latest-news","10":"tag-delhi-news","11":"tag-delhi-news-live","12":"tag-delhi-news-today","13":"tag-environment","14":"tag-health-emergency","15":"tag-kunal-kushwaha","16":"tag-public-health-disaster","17":"tag-science","18":"tag-today-news-delhi","19":"tag-toxic-air-in-delhi","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115604207792358548","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}