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It's almost 10AM in Noida (Delhi NCR) and its choking to death. The sky is full of SMOG and there is no sign of sunlight. Sky above apartments is not clear. One can easily understand that how much pain it is and how this slow poison is taking our lives every day. Though national Green Tribunal slammed Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana over bad ambient air quality in national capital region. But it now seems every year NGT do one thing consistently i.e slamming and after that nothing changes. People are in fact living to die a slow death in Delhi NCR. 

Recently I visited my relatives in Brahampur with family. It is a tiny hamlet in   Bihar ’s Buxar District. This area is known for its Shiva temple and people used to make a visit during festivals and make offerings. Residents are normally calm and hugely dependent on agriculture.  Life in Brahampur starts early morning and ends in general around 7-8 PM. Though there are nothing much to do there for me, I normally spent my days chatting with my four years old little daughter and answering her childlike queries. Sometimes kids throw you such difficult question that you hardly have any answer to please them. Nights in Brahampur were pleasant so we usually go to the roof and look at the sky. Except for cloudy days, sky was always full of stars. It looked so complete and fascinating. My daughter excited as usual asked same question every night ‘why sky in Brahampur has so many stars’ and why there are no stars in Noida (Delhi NCR). She started counting as many a...