Every year as Diwali approaches, debate over the air quality of Indian cities gets heated up. More so, for Delhi which gets doubly affected due to the stubble-burning period in North India. While many healthy discussions on unhealthy air gets heated up, the primary reasons for this and cascading effects of it are churned out as less actionable areas. Look at Delhi city, when the Odd- Even formula for vehicular plying was adopted to handle the worsening air quality, media and what’s app was flooded with satire on such initiative. If we do not take this issue seriously now, in near future more and more cities need to become extremely creative and come out with the out of box thinking to combat this globally concerning issue. In addition, such initiatives may not be convenient to everyone to adopt.