This month, North India witnessed a huge air pollution crisis as many cities including Delhi were swathed in a blanket of toxic smog. Yet life and the political blame-game seemed to continue as usual. Air quality levels went from severe to very poor, schools were shut in Delhi and NCR after Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal termed life in capital as living in a "gas chamber". The worse the things got, more the politics around it remained the same.