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Strong winds offered only a slight respite to Delhi’s air quality, which remained in the 'very poor' category for the fourth consecutive day, registering an AQI of 359 on Monday morning. This marked a marginal improvement from 377 on Sunday and 386 on Saturday, as a dense layer of smog continued to blanket the capital.
According to data from the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB)'s Sameer app, six of Delhi’s 39 monitoring stations recorded 'severe' pollution levels. Bawana topped the list with an AQI of 427, followed by DTU (402), Jahangirpuri (406), Narela (406), Rohini (404), and Wazirpur (402), indicating worsening conditions in these areas.
According to data from the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB)'s Sameer app, six of Delhi’s 39 monitoring stations recorded 'severe' pollution levels. Bawana topped the list with an AQI of 427, followed by DTU (402), Jahangirpuri (406), Narela (406), Rohini (404), and Wazirpur (402), indicating worsening conditions in these areas.
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00:00Masker laga ke wo khansati thi jam ke myri
00:05Chmog hote hi shimla bhaagati ek dam se myri
00:13Air purifier tha uske paas
00:20Ghir se jo nikli nahi aya sas
00:24Myri khansati rahati
00:26Myri inhaler lady
00:29Myri asthma bronchitis paayegi
00:33Dawai pe kharchavo karti
00:36Tutar pe charcha bhi karti
00:39Myri khansati khansati jayeri
00:43Vote karoon kisko karoon
00:49Eh myri
00:51Did you feel like laughing at it or crying at it?
00:57Well, that's the kind of emotion all of us are feeling as well.
01:00Hello and welcome.
01:01You're watching 5Live. I'm Sorul Medodhra Kapoor.
01:03There's only one issue really worth discussing as we go into the winter season of pollution season and we here on 5Live have taken it upon us to ensure that we pick it up every day.
01:15So what are we discussing today?
01:17Let's go back and sort of jog your memory a little bit. Let's go back to November of 2022. That time the AQI in the national capital was around 650. November of 2023 again it was touching 700.
01:3224, it went up from 700 to 750, even crossing 790 in parts of Delhi. And this year, November of 2025, numbers are crossing beyond 850. But then there are questions on the validity of these numbers altogether.
01:49Four years, same month, same poison, same story. And let's be honest, despite all the committees, commissions, crackdowns, strict warnings, successive government, simply haven't been able to fix this problem.
02:04Different parties, different manifestos, but the same smog.
02:08Because the solution we get is always temporary. Stop gap. It's almost crisis mode. Shut schools, ban trucks, spray water or dust. On dust, like we are trying to give sort of CPR to a dead system.
02:23If that also doesn't work, give water to the meter itself. And every winter, when we are gasping, the political class looks surprised, like it wasn't on the calendar, like they didn't know it was going to happen in the first place.
02:35While policy stays stuck in their annual replay, the anger on the ground is evolving.
02:43Activists, those pictures on your screen, of course, are still protesting, filing petitions, organising marches, shouting hordes of right to breathe.
02:52But what about young Indians? What are they doing? Do they even care?
02:58Well, this time, we notice a different trend emerging.
03:00They are talking in a very different language, on a very different beat, in fact.
03:07They are protesting in the way that generation knows best.
03:12By grabbing eyeballs, by hijacking your screen and by making you stop mid-scroll to really take note.
03:20Sample this. Delhi's youth is forcing the government to notice the problem and take necessary action, and they are doing it the way they know best.
03:31This is the first one.
03:32This is the first one.
04:02That was Saloni Gaurd.
04:32And listen to the next one.
04:33We picked up another one for you.
04:35You step out for fresh air, but when you don't find it, you decide to put chorus for clean air.
04:42The next one wasockey, with each other.
04:47And why did you jump from there?
04:53The scare always profonde may come from me.
05:01Tha us ke paas ghar se jo nikli nahi aya saas maayeri khasati rehti, maayeri inhaler lehti, maayeri asthma bronchitis paayegi.
05:18Dawaai pe kharcha wo karti, putar pe charcha bhi karti, maayeri khasati khasati jayeri.
05:27Khasati khasati jayeri, doesn't it speak to your soul?
05:33Well, we've got another one because this one really stings.
05:37Gen Z is addressing its pollution concerns through memes.
05:40But if you look at them a level deeper, they aren't just really funny, they're actually very, very sad.
05:57Funny?
05:58Yes.
05:59Sharp?
06:00Well, absolutely.
06:01Yes.
06:02Sharp?
06:03Well, absolutely.
06:04But let's not fool ourselves.
06:05Pollution is not a laughing stock.
06:09It's a life-altering crisis.
06:10For Gen Z, for millennials, this isn't politics.
06:11This isn't politics.
06:12This is personal.
06:13It's their lungs.
06:14It's their childhood outdoors.
06:15Their morning run.
06:16their commute, their future, their game, their career, isn't it?
06:18They're going to be going to be a fantasy world.
06:19How can we see the future?
06:20You can see what new people are.
06:21That must be their success.
06:22You can see what new people are.
06:23In the creative process, while people are countries, you can see its energy and have
06:24an anti-inflammatory position.
06:25And what can we do the best?
06:26How can we do that now?
06:27How can we do that?
06:28Now, not the news is good?
06:29In the creative process, but what can we do the best with Missical change?
06:30No, we'll try to make it more so if we can get it more popular.
06:31But let's not fool ourselves.
06:32Pollution is not a laughing stock.
06:33It's a life-altering crisis.
06:35For Gen Z for millennials.
06:37This isn't politics.
06:39personal it's their lungs it's their childhood outdoors their morning run their commute their
06:44future their game their communication their socials all put together and then a generation
06:50that has grown up online starts turning creatively into a protest when memes become messaging when
06:58reels become resistance it tells you something doesn't it it tells you they are done waiting
07:04for governments to fix it it tells you they're taking control of the narrative and it tells us
07:09very clearly that the cost of inaction is no longer invisible so today on the program we meet
07:16these young indians the one who are remixing rage into art remixing humor into activism and pollution
07:26into a protest movement you cannot ignore so let's begin let me introduce our guests first up joining
07:33me on the program today is the saloni gaur comedian and content creator hi there hi there saloni thanks
07:39so much for being here also with us in the studio is nish chair varma content creator you just saw
07:44his piece on there on our screens as well and also with us today is nirbhai garg here already with his
07:52guitar and vasu sharma who is in mumbai as we speak and like because this is a problem which is not
08:00just about delhi so it's really lovely that we've got this band of boys which are both in delhi and
08:06mumbai and we'll go across to them as well but let me first go to saloni saloni every time
08:13one looks at a meme or a satire or a piece which stings politically or which perhaps stings you in a
08:22way where you don't know whether you should laugh or cry i wonder if what is the reaction that you
08:30want your audience to take away from it because many will say you to mazak bana di a pollution ka
08:36no the one thing that most of the people in my comment section were saying
08:40why didn't you say it before but but but let me tell you that my career started with pollution
08:47video the only video which went viral for the first time was about pollution and that i did before
08:53too it's not about that you are talking about the important thing is that you are talking about now
08:59now everyone is buying air purifier now everyone is buying any type of illness or illness but
09:07you are talking about that you are talking about that you are talking about that you are talking about now
09:11and honestly i have made that video sitting at home but hats off to these guys these guys they
09:16have put their lives in danger these people were in their seats they were in their terrace
09:21so i mean what i want the reaction that i want is you know people should stop and think and
09:27not even just people i want the government to stop and think
09:31i mean they're not even addressing the issue they're not even claiming that something happened
09:36the problem is that and since you've been doing this for several years now it's a career out of
09:42pollution if that's what i'm getting right here which is we're laughing about it yes but very very
09:48worrying to sort of even think about have you noticed any change over the years no i i think the only
09:55change is that it has worsened i mean it's not good it's not bad it's not bad it's not bad it's not bad
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10:30I mean the problem is that the government is not showing pollution because of the pollution problem.
10:36It's just so hazy that they can't see it.
10:39It's not showing pollution because of the pollution problem.
10:42But Nishche, you've also been making content on pollution for several years now, right?
10:48And every year you do like a different song that comes out and every year you go with this stoic face
10:56and you go to different places.
10:58I want to know seriously that we talk about so many young people about pollution.
11:05But do they do something for that?
11:07Like I genuinely want to know when the protest happened, I was there at India Gate
11:11and I saw a lot of young people, I saw some older people with their kids, etc. as well.
11:16But how many of them were wearing a mask?
11:19So I wonder sometimes if people care about pollution just enough to talk about it
11:25or enough to do something about it.
11:28I guess we don't have any solution to this now.
11:32I mean there's no choice for us now.
11:33Now just to talk about it, we don't have the solution.
11:37Now we have to do something.
11:38What are we talking about?
11:40Because I, being an artist,
11:42I can only talk about music or just on social media.
11:46And I can influence a lot of people around me who follow me or who watches me over the internet.
11:52But now there's no choice.
11:54I mean, you either close your eyes on your eyes because you don't see it.
11:59Look at that, Saluni said that you don't see it.
12:02And as I wrote a line in my song, how do I take a deep breath in stress?
12:07Because I take a deep breath, but if I take a deep breath, then it will get more stress.
12:11So I guess we don't have any choice.
12:14So please read the lines that you have written.
12:16So, in that sense, I don't have a cigarette, but my lungs are defective.
12:23And I don't have a shock for adventure sports.
12:26I'm still playing Modnal.
12:28And I'm looking at AQI at Stokes.
12:31Fresh Air's IPO will come.
12:34Fresh Air's IPO?
12:36When will Fresh Air's election come?
12:38I think that's what I'm waiting for.
12:40And on that note, let me bring in Nirbhay and Vasu as well.
12:45Now, Nirbhay and Vasu are both, you know, have been making songs.
12:50They have one that has already come out.
12:52One that is now going viral from a previous year as well.
12:55So in this very convoluted world of social media, everything is coming to fore.
12:58And hashtag pollution is coming out, which tells me that people care.
13:02People are watching.
13:04On my family WhatsApp group, also everybody saying,
13:06Look what's happening in Delhi.
13:08But how many of them are wearing a mask?
13:10How many of them are doing the right things?
13:13That I always wonder.
13:14When you guys put out this video for the first time,
13:18was the reaction funny?
13:21Was the reaction what to do?
13:24Like helpless?
13:25Or was the reaction angry?
13:29Our motivation to make this song was that we were fed up.
13:33Vasu was coming from Himachal.
13:35I was coming back from Uttarakhand around the same dates.
13:37And the moment we entered the NCR zone, let's say Chandigarh.
13:42So there was a curtain of smoke that we went through.
13:45Our buses went through.
13:46And that was for both of us.
13:48So we were really angry that okay.
13:50Now that I have stepped into this music thing.
13:53And Vasu was already an established musician.
13:56So he decided that we have to do something.
13:59And then we sat and within two days we made this music and this song.
14:02The lyrics, yeah.
14:03That was the Mairi song.
14:05No, that was the
14:05other version of the other version.
14:08You have to have to have to have a clean water.
14:10The Kawali that.
14:11Because I come from a Sufi background.
14:12Okay.
14:13So that was the Kawali version.
14:15That was the Kawali version in 23.
14:16Then we made another in Mairi.
14:18In 2024.
14:19Yeah.
14:20So you will also make it for 25.
14:22We are making songs.
14:24We are talking about content creators.
14:26We are establishing careers.
14:29We are talking about pollution every year.
14:31But where is the solution?
14:34Are you guys as frustrated as I am?
14:36Or am I just, is my algor rigged as they say?
14:39And I am only seeing it.
14:41No, we thought that we won't have to make another video in 2025.
14:45We hoped that our video would lose its significance in 2025.
14:49Because that thing will happen after 2023.
14:51We garnered more than a crore views.
14:53That's a lot.
14:54But it didn't happen.
14:55So there is, somewhere there is a fault in our stars I guess.
14:58So these over millions of people who share likes
15:03or share your video or sort of send hearts or send comments.
15:09I wonder how many of them actually vote on pollution.
15:12I wonder how many of them make it a point to talk about it
15:15and to raise it all year round.
15:17And let me bring in your partner Vasu from Mumbai as well on this.
15:20Vasu, do you think people, all of those millions of people who love looking at your reels,
15:27share it, forward it?
15:28Do you think it matters enough to them that they would actually vote on it one day?
15:38Vasu, can you hear me?
15:45Foggy signal.
15:46I will blame it on that.
15:48And I will take that question, and I will take that question to Saloni then.
15:52Saloni, what has really intrigued me about pollution is the fact that
15:58when India really unites, we are able to bring about change.
16:02For example, on the issue of dogs.
16:04We managed to roll back an order from Supreme Court for them to rethink, come to a compromise.
16:11Why is it not happening in pollution?
16:15I think people are not that serious.
16:18For example, my own family, the extended family.
16:22In their house, the daughter was fighting for an air purifier.
16:26And the mother was thinking, why don't you do your lungs strong?
16:31I don't know what the psyche has happened.
16:33That they have started thinking that you have to get immune to this.
16:37Not the other way around.
16:38There is no immunity on pollution.
16:42What is...
16:43Like, okay, anyways.
16:44I don't know.
16:45So she was arguing with her,
16:46that you are very poor.
16:48What is your problem?
16:49We are also taking the air in the air.
16:52I don't know.
16:53I have seen those pictures where people are running around India Gate.
16:57And honestly, I would say that I was sitting at home for such a long time.
17:02Because it was bad that I am doing so much good for my health.
17:08And now there is a thing that I cannot do anything and that will impact my health.
17:12Which is an outer factor.
17:13But you are also bored at home.
17:16So I also went to play badminton one day.
17:17But then I thought, what is happening?
17:19That means, why should we stop ourselves?
17:23This is also a thought that comes back.
17:25But again, I don't know what can we do when the government is just not hearing anything.
17:31If I were to ask you that question, that we can unite on so many things, why not pollution?
17:36Because it doesn't affect us immediately.
17:39It affects us in one or two business years.
17:41That's why.
17:42If it were grabbing our throat right now, we would act on it now.
17:45Because as Indians, I think our responses are a little delayed according to India standard time.
17:51Delayed?
17:52Yeah.
17:52Yeah.
17:53I mean, it doesn't have immediate impact.
17:54So it's coming, but in two months it will be fine.
17:56You will get a drink.
17:57You will eat a drink.
17:58You will get a drink for a week.
18:00And then a few months later the pollution will go.
18:01And then the rain will come.
18:02And then you will forget about it.
18:04And then you will get frustrated again.
18:06Yeah.
18:08Guys, I don't know.
18:09So I, but you have a song for it, which perhaps will make some sense.
18:14I hope it does.
18:15Ah, we might not have all the answers today.
18:18We really hope to get it one day.
18:19But there's a song that might make you think.
18:21If we don't understand our talk, maybe we can understand the song.
18:25So please, over to you.
18:26Okay.
18:27So my friend Vasu and I, we wrote this song.
18:30Hmm.
18:30And it's made to a very famous tune.
18:32Of a famous Kawali by Ustad Nusra Patalikansah.
18:35Hmm.
18:35So Vasu wrote this share in the beginning.
19:05This song has been aano.
19:07It's called ..
19:08He has been a great song.
19:09It's not my new name to you.
19:11I am not a new name.
19:14You have a new name.
19:16I have a new name.
19:17So you have a new name.
19:19You have a new name.
19:20You have a new name.
19:21To Vita Nusra Patalikansah.
19:24You have a new name.
19:25Just leave it to a unique name.
19:26You have a new name,
19:28And it's named Ashtama Bronchitis.
19:30And it's named Ashtama Bronchitis,
19:31It's named Danas.
19:33I like to see that
19:35And I love you
19:36But I love you
19:37My friend
19:39My friend
19:40You love you
19:51I love you
19:51I love you
19:53I have last 30 seconds, but I really want you to go over Mairi once and I would love to leave our viewers also with this song.
20:10You know, we are laughing, we are smiling about it, but we really shouldn't. It's a serious matter.
20:15Please stop thinking your immunity will fight it out and please stop thinking for once that it will get a habit if you put an air purifier or a mask.
20:23These are very serious issues. Please take your doctor's advice and not anyone else. Enjoy this song for the song.
20:53I wish.
20:58A purifier था उसके पास घर से जो निकली नहीं आया सास माएरी खासती रहती माएरी इनहिलर लेती माएरी अस्थमा ब्रॉंकाइटेस पाएगी.
21:17दवाए पर खर्चा भी करती ट्विचर पे चर्चा भी करती माएरी खासती खासती जाएरी.
21:27वो के करूं किसको करूं ए माएरी ओ दिल्ली एंसी आर को छोड़के आजा थोड़े और पटा के थोड़के आजा फैक्टरी का धुआ जलती पराली डीजल के धुएं का सस्ता नशा
21:57Thank you so much.
22:00Well on that note, enjoy while you can this music because clearly what happens next we don't know.
22:08I just want to leave you all with this little note and this little thought that pollution is a serious matter.
22:13Think about it, raise your voice about it, demand clean air.
22:16We'll see you tomorrow, bye-bye.
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