Air pollution in the capital city, Delhi reached hazardous levels as experts even urged people to leave the city for their safety. Hospitals are seeing a rise in respiratory and cardiac patients and exposure to such pollutants over prolonged periods has also been linked with cancer, neurological damage, and premature death. This article lets us know how bad air in Delhi impacts in terms of health, hospital over-crowding, financial and social losses. This argument stresses the need to have policy changes, public enlightenment, and technological intervention in order to arrest the crisis. Thousands of lives are at stake, and this environmental disaster needs immediate action to curtail its effect.