
PANAJI, India-When Deepikah Bharadwaj is a child in New Delhi, she will look forward to the arrival of winter in India.
It will be cold and crisp in the morning and cool and pleasant in the evening.
But in recent years, the feeling of expectation has turned into fear.
As the temperature dropped, the thick smog shrouded her, making her breathless and afraid to go out.
After her son was born on 2016, she decided it was time to act.
Now, when she thinks of Delhi, her main emotion is to get away.
Bharadwaj, 33, sat in her light and said, "I'm sorry I can never go back to my hometown --"
Filled apartments in Goa, West Coast of India, more than 1,000 miles from Delhi.
"Like a friend who didn't say goodbye, it was a permanent loss.
"Bharadwaj is part of a small but growing ranks of polluting refugees: those who think the only way to deal with the amazing pollution in Delhi is to escape it.
Some, such as Bharadwaj, left the Indian capital for Goa, while others went to Bangalore, Mumbai and even Canada.
This phenomenon seems limited to a handful of elites-a trickle up compared to those who arrive in Delhi every day to find economic opportunities.
But these departures put a sharp rebuke to the city's expanding ambitions: if, according to the World Health Organization, the air in a city causes some people who live there to escape, so it has the most polluted city in the world in Dodd.
The reasons for this are diverse-car exhaust, construction dust, industrial emissions, burning of crops in nearby states-and exacerbated by geographical factors.
In Dade, which has a population of 29 million, the "pollution season" began in October and lasted for several months.
November and December brought the worst data of the year: last week, levels of particulate matter considered the most harmful to human health soared for hours before they subsided, more than 40 times the level recommended by WHO.
The particles can go deep into the lungs and are associated with high blood pressure, heart disease, respiratory infections and even cancer.
Those who can afford to do their best to mitigate their exposure.
They buy masks, buy air purifiers for their homes, and plan out trips with their children during school holidays.
But for some in Delhi, such measures are not enough at best.
They are willing to make tough choices in search of cleaner air-such as resigning, leaving home and friends.
"This is an emergency in a country," he said.
Host a popular food program, born and raised in Delhi, but left the city with his family last year.
"The more we learn, the more afraid we are.
Sharma said that if his son ran around outside in the fall, he would have difficulty breathing at night and asked him to use a nebulizer.
One afternoon two years ago, Sharma and his wife, Michelle Coleman, found themselves observing a surreal scene-a lavish outdoor children's birthday party, all the children wore pollution masks-and decided it was time to leave.
Their destination is where they have been on vacation: Goa, a small state that is popular for beaches, coconut trees and a relaxed pace of life.
Now the family lives at the end of a quiet street in the town of Goan in Porvorim.
Their home is located next to the jungle with open windows.
"You do feel like a defector," said Koman, 42, who spent ten years in Delhi . ".
She said the couple tend not to discuss their decision or new life with people in the city.
"It's hard to tell our friends," Hey, the weather is fine today and we went to the beach.
For Tracy Shilshi, the turning point was on last November after the Hindu Diwali.
This festival is usually celebrated by setting off firecrackers, which adds another factor to the toxic pollution in Delhi.
"The weather is getting so bad that you can really feel the smoke in your mouth," said Shilshi, 37 . ".
She posted a sad poem on Facebook about pollution in Delhi. Shilshi’s 3-year-
The old son often has a runny nose, which her pediatrician thinks is caused by Delhi's air, while her father has been trying to have a runny nosepresent cough.
Therefore, after 25 years in the city, Shilshi resigned as a television journalist and moved to the south of Goa in April with her husband, children and parents.
Her son's nose problem was solved within a week and her father's cough was resolved.
The air purifier they used in Delhi is now collecting dust in the box.
Moving companies and headhunters confirmed that even if they said they couldn't quantify the trend, people would leave because of bad air.
Suresh Raina, a partner at search firm Hunt Partners, said winter has become a good time to convince executives who don't have a deep foundation in Delhi to accept other cities to work.
"Every November, when pollution gets worse and the sky outside gets darker, these executives wake up and they start calling and say 'I won't stay here,'" Raina said '. ".
Shiivani Aggarwal, chief executive and relocation expert at the Formula Group, said she encountered several examples of pollution causing people to go out: last year, a family moved to Hyderabad after their children had difficulty breathing in Delhi;
Another couple arrived in Delhi from Mumbai two months ago but were ready to leave due to pollution;
The third couple decided to separate because of the bad air-he was in Delhi and she was in Goa.
Aggarwal said her own husband even came up with the idea of leaving about a month ago.
They're not going anywhere now.
"This migration is correct for affordable people, and I think this is correct at the beginning," Self
Describe the polluted refugees living in Goa.
She and her two children left Delhi in last December after years of meditation;
Her husband was still working in town and flew off on the weekend.
Her home is located on a hill on the Mapusa river and can see a wide green valley.
"I'm sure things will change," said triparsi, 39 . ".
But this change "will certainly not happen in the next five years, and my child is a child.
Others are more hopeful.
Mrida Joshi, 37, said air quality could take half a decade or more to improve, but "nothing can't be done," she sat on a balcony in a small village.
It's down at dusk, her 3-
The one-year-old twin daughter ran around barefoot.
Qiao Shi left Delhi in September and plans to stay in Goa until pollution in the capital has eased.
Delhi "has a great atmosphere, I love it, it's home," she said, but "I can't deny it.