I'm from India. I extremely doubt that the air pollution has anything to do with this. Our healthcare system has completely collapsed. People are struggling to find medical oxygen and are dying outside hospitals without getting any care. Hospital are literally begging for oxygen on Twitter every single day. Significant number of these could've been saved if the Government had prepared for this by improving the healthcare infra. Instead they overconfidently declared victory, kept on hiding data, organized religious and political rallies.
The worst is that it has just gotten started and would keep getting worse in the coming days.