Delhi’s annual pollution crisis has once again become the centre of conversation, and this time, former Xiaomi India head Manu Kumar Jain has added his voice to the growing concern. The India CEO of Abu Dhabi–based tech group G42, Jain, has now shared a troubling account of his brief trip to the capital, one that he had to cut short after the city’s toxic air became unbearable.

Jain said he had flown in for a series of important meetings, but within hours, the smog hit him hard . He admitted he had forgotten to carry his N95 mask , which only made things worse. “Within a few hours my eyes were watering, throat was burning, I kept coughing and even had a mild headache,” he wrote on X, adding that he realised just how “out of practice” he had become with Delhi ’s pollution levels.

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