00:00Meera Rajput and Vani Kapoor are actually alarmed by Delhi's 447 AQI after Diwali.
00:07Meera and Vani both have condemned crackers.
00:12Shahid Kapoor's wife Meera Rajput wrote a note amid Delhi's worsening air quality
00:16about rampant use of crackers, asking people not to normalise it for their children.
00:21Delhi residents woke up on Tuesday to heavy grey haze darkening the city's skies,
00:25reducing visibility and the air quality in the red zone after many celebrated
00:29Diwali the previous night by bursting firecrackers beyond the two-hour limit set by the Supreme Court.
00:36Delhi's air quality index AQI was severe, reaching up to as much as 447 on Tuesday morning.
00:43Several Bollywood celebrities have flagged the high AQI and condemned the relentless use
00:48of crackers in not only Delhi but around the country.
00:51Or Meera Rajput, who is the entrepreneur and wife of actor Shahid Kapoor, took to her Instagram
00:55stories on Tuesday and wrote,
00:56Why are we still bursting crackers? It's not okay even if it's just for the kids to see once
01:01or we are just doing it once for them to have the experience.
01:04Well, Meera and Shahid are two kids.
01:06The daughter is 9 years old and the daughter is 7 years old.
01:10They wrote,
01:11Neither is it okay for your petaka aesthetic to hold a full jadi for the gram.
01:14Let's please stop normalizing this. If we normalize it, so will our kids and this will never stop.
01:19Say no to crackers, cannot be the poster. Get your kids to make for Earth Day and then forget about it when Diwali comes along.
01:25She also argued that AQI is not just news for the next Instagram story but the very air our children breathe.
01:31This is not a tradition I wish to indulge in and what's sad is despite the privilege, education, awareness and affluence, what lacks is common sense.
01:39So no, I won't send my kids to watch while you'll have some other crack of fun. Please stop, added Meera.
01:44Tawahi Par actor Vani Kapoor also took to her Instagram stories on Tuesday and they wrote,
01:49Woke up to Delhi's AQI touching 447, one of the highest in the world today.
01:53Maybe next year we find a way to celebrate without dimming the air we breathe.
01:56An AQI between 0 and 50 is good, 15 and 100 is satisfactory, 101 and 200 moderate, 201 and 300 poor,
02:04301 to 400 very poor and 401 and 500 severe, wrote Vani.
02:09Well, you can tell me that the Supreme Court had allowed the use of green firecrackers in Delhi NCR
02:14between 8pm and 10pm on Diwali, which was celebrated on Monday. However, many flouted the court directions
02:19with celebrations continuing late into the night. The air quality is expected to further slip into the
02:24severe category more widely on Wednesday. Well, you can tell me that Shahid Kapoor's wife Meera Rajput
02:29and Vani Kapoor are both Delhi's people in Delhi, and say that in Delhi's AQI, they have a lot of
02:34children's people in Delhi. Well, if you do not believe in this opinion, please tell us a comment.
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