Or, consider this: water being sprinkled in the air near AQI meters in Delhi to make the pollution levels ‘look’ better; or better still, solving our big existential problem of air pollution by simply changing Indian standards to make high AQI levels seem normal. Voila! These are just a couple of examples of the absurdity of governance we witness across the country. All this, when the rupee has depreciated by about 7% over the year, our cities are becoming increasingly unliveable, foreign portfolio investors are pulling out from our stock market, geopolitics is raising serious concerns, job creation at scale…



