The sky and landscape provide clues on how the governments of Punjab and Haryana are handling the menace of stubble burning this year.
In Punjab’s Sangrur and Patiala districts, the air is thick with smoke, the landscape pockmarked with half or fully burned fields. Eighty km to the southeast, towards Kaithal district in Haryana, the visibility improves. Golden hay and green fields emerge on the horizon.
