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Singh uses data with flair to exhort us to panic, to push the government to act against air pollution.

It's a good time to read Siddharth Singh's The Great Smog of India. As in previous years, large parts of the country are inhaling hazardous air. This will kill about 1.2 million Indians this year too.

Fortunately, Singh's book is not as gloomy as my opening lines-and that's possibly because as a policy wonk working on energy and climate change, he seeks solutions. Such a dispassionate approach, seeking

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