The Dilli Gate vendor
Hindustan Times|December 04, 2024
Winter portrait of a snack seller
Mayank Austen Soofi
The Dilli Gate vendor

During the days of extreme pollution, a week ago, his eyes were burning as if someone had flung red chilli powder into them, he says, here on the smoggy street-side, near Dilli Gate metro station, just across the road from the historic Dilli Gate monument. His breathing wasn't feeling right either.

Nizam, a young street snack seller, knew it wasn't his eyes (or lungs) per se, but the extreme Delhi pollution that arrives every year with the start of cold season. "This winter problem has been with us for many years, and it will stay with us forever," he declares matter-of-factly.

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