India, Dec. 16 -- This is an open letter to all members of Parliament, elected representatives of Delhi and the municipal corporators representing the National Capital Region on the urgent need for public town halls to fight air pollution.

We vividly recall most of you appealing to us for our votes - asking us to bring you to power, and assuring us of good governance, responsiveness, transparency and accountability. It is in that context and with hope that we write to you today.

We wish to ask whether, in the face of a challenge as serious and pervasive as air pollution, you as our representatives remaining distant and largely inaccessible to the people consistent with those assurances? Does a public health crisis of this magnitude not ...