Thread by @MasalaBai

I don't think people elsewhere fully grasp what's happening in NCR and just how hot it is. At 7am, the tap water is boiling hot. The sun hurts the eye. There's no night time anymore. For 24 hours the temperature feels above 40C. Which means during night the water is as hot

every surface is hot to touch. The human body can't endure a heatwave this nonstop without respite. ACs running nonstop, but rooms are barely cool, house plants are dying - you have to water them with boiling hot water. Struggling to breathe in the thick scalding air

The skin feels like it's on fire because there's minimal sweating here. You can't drink any water that's not in fridge. Water stored in bathroom in buckets need at least 12 hours to cool down to room temperature before bathing is possible. You can't step out on the streets.

The early morning yoga classes are mostly gone where I live because it's near 40C at 6am. Some of us residents in highrises are storing extra bottles of cold water and packets of ice the domestic workers can take home. But I can't imagine how dreadful it is for people without

any privilege, the poor and the homeless, those who cannot afford even a cooler and animals on the streets. A money plant that covered my entire balcony like a carpet of dark green died. The palm is shrivelling up, both in shade.

you can have a couple of days of 47-50C heat. You can't have relentless 10 days with no rain, no end in sight. And I fear this is how we will live from now on. And governments will do nothing because of capitalist greed.

Because the 1% super rich, when they're done cutting down all trees, flying in private jets, building ugly hotels in sensitive ecosystems, mining, displacing indigenous people, when they have nothing left to exploit, they will move their families to colder places and settle there

In Kolkata in the 90s and 2000s we'd sleep on the floor in summers. Here in NCR you can't lie down on the floor even at night. It's feels like a gas burner is on underneath it.

Declare an emergency, extend school holidays, shift to work from home, set up industrial coolers in shelters for the homeless, provide electricity subsidies to the poor who at least can run coolers, set up free water dispensers on roads, set aside funds for climate emergency

I didn't think this would explode, so for those outside of India - NCR stands for National Capital Region, that includes capital Delhi and several districts surrounding it from the states of Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, and Rajasthan.

"In more serious cases it can lead to a heatstroke, when the body’s core temperature goes above 40.6C (105F). One of the patients who died in Delhi’s RML hospital on Tuesday had a body temperature of 110F (43C)."

independent.co.uk/climate-change…