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Outrage + Optimism

Outrage + Optimism

India: Life Inside Delhi's 'Airpocalypse'

Aug 27, 2026 · 39m

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In Delhi, lung cancer is no longer a smoker’s disease. It’s a breather’s disease. But the most polluted capital on earth sits in a country running five years ahead of its Paris clean power target. In the first of three dispatches from India, Tom Rivett-Carnac is joined by Dia Mirza , one of the biggest names in Indian cinema and a UN Environment Goodwill Ambassador, and Shyla Raghav , formerly Chief Climate Officer at TIME, who describes "a mix of pride, a mix of heartbreak, and, as well, possibility." With Delhi-based journalist Adnan Bhat guiding and translating, Tom traces the path India is trying to build - development founded on renewable energy, clean transport, and a refusal to…