The thirst for diesel in India is growing. Diesel mania grips the Indian automobile industry and the customers with more and more companies going for diesel variants. What most people are ignorant of or prefer to ignore is the fact that diesel fumes are highly carcinogenic and pose a serious threat to public health. Many Indian cities, especially Delhi, are already reeling under high concentrations of diesel-related pollutants like small particulate matter, oxides of nitrogen and ozone. What was supposed to be cheap fuel for the poor - farmers for whose pumpsets and tractors the government had subsidised the price of diesel - is now driving the cars of the rich. Morally and environmentally reprehensible, yet there is nobody in the government to stop this killer trend