If you look carefully you can see my shadow silhouetted in the dust and smoke of the venue over the audience, Bryan Adams said while posting this image in Instagram (Photo: Instagram/Bryan Adams)

Brayn Adams, the Canadian singer-songwriter, is not going to forget the Winter of '18.

Well, not exactly.

It isn't winter yet in Delhi-NCR but the wintery smog and dust-laden air is here. Bryan Adams got to experience this first hand at his concert in Gurgaon over the weekend.

Adams put up an Instagram post in which a man's silhouette appears to be reflected against a backdrop of apparent dust. That silhouette, Adams said, was of him on stage.

"In this photo, if you look carefully you can see my shadow silhouetted in the dust and smoke of the venue over the audience," Adams said. "I've never seen that before."

Pollution and smog are annual features of the winter in New Delhi and the larger National Capital Region (NCR).

Every year, the government expresses confidence of being prepared to deal with any eventuality but every year, schools invariably have to be briefly shut down and citizens invariably have to think twice before stepping out.

An emergency plan, formulated by a Supreme Court-mandated body, is already in effect in Delhi-NCR. Under the plan, varying degrees of measures will mandatorily take effect depending the quality of air in Delhi-NCR at any given time.

IndiaToday.in will be tracking stubble burning instances and Delhi-NCR's air quality on a daily basis. Check our Air Quality page for the latest on this topic.

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