According to Down to Earth, in 2019, air pollution alone killed 1,16,00 children in India. Many died due to indoor air pollution, a euphemism for using biomass for cooking. Women cook indoors, where infants also rest. Their tender lungs give up. The Ujjwala scheme, rolled out to counter precisely this form of inequity, has not yet reached some of the world’s most polluted cities, such as Delhi. A study by Chintan, Extinguishing the Smoke, showed how women users were aware of the impact of biomass on their health. As prices of LPG increase, this essential household good is rapidly turning into a luxury. Dirty fuels like these then pollute entire air sheds throughout the year, but most hauntingly, kill children. When polluted air becomes a thick, acrid vapour that burns our lungs collectively every year in late October, we cry stubble burning. This is a 6-8 week phenomenon when farmers, especially in Punjab and Haryana, burn paddy straw they cannot pull out of the land manually. They must do this in order to ready the earth for the next crop in record time. While the farmer stands vilified for growing some of the best quality commercial rice, little attention is paid to the other tragedy in lakhs of urban poor—and not poor homes. All children struggle when the air is unhealthy or worse. The poor additionally breathe in fumes from the cooking inside their homes. A win-win is possible.