A few books in recent years have compellingly argued why and how Delhi’s air can be cleaned up both at the source and in the city itself. Jyoti Pande Lavakare’s Breathing Here is Injurious to Your Health – The Human Cost of Air Pollution and How You Can Be the Change is the most recent.
Published by Hachette India in November 2020, Jyoti’s book is a memoir – how Delhi’s foul air was responsible for her mother’s cancer and how she battled it. Jyoti turned into a clean air activist and has been working hard with schools, parent bodies, government departments, corporates and more importantly, with groups of people, to alter their wasteful behavior.
Jyoti co-founded Care For Air in 2015, a platform for building awareness and advocacy for clean air. This book is part of her fight for clean air as a right of every citizen. It’s a collection of her intense and absorbing dialogues that reflects disappointments and also offers a glimmer of hope.
Originally published on SustainabilityNext. Read the full review here.
