Twitterati indulge in dark humour even as air pollution levels soar beyond severe in Delhi NCR

Even as the air pollution levels in Delhi NCR crossed into the severe category, with the overall Air Quality Index, according to official data, hovering at 582 at 12.30 am today, sending alarm bells ringing among the citizens and prompting the government to shut down all schools till November 5, some Twitterati took to the microblogging site to post sarcastic and self-deprecating messages, some of which border on dark humour.

National Herald made a compilation of some of the more interesting ones, reproduced below: