A note on the issue: The outlook is hazy

We didn’t need Bryan Johnson to tell us to wear N95 masks because our air is acrid but the tech billionaire, who is trying to live forever, was right when he posted that he was “shocked by how normalized Indians are to poor air quality”. Johnson was in Mumbai for six days when the AQI was at 100+, which is not bad for an Indian city that often has readings to rival Delhi, but for a man who bathes in LED light, swallows about one hundred supplements a day to defy death, and has tried taking blood plasma from his teenaged son, “solving air quality in India is more important than curing cancer”. Clean air is a privilege anywhere in urban India, whether you’re in the posh parts or the poor ones, north or south. Bangkok-based chef Garima Arora tells Lounge about retaining her two Michelin stars for a second year running and her plans for a bar in Gurugram, and restaurateur Rakshay Dhariwal talks about rethinking the way Indians dine.