Shivaram, a villager, walking through the cracked bottom of a dried-out pond on a hot summer day at Bandai village in Pali district. Photos: AFP
Afroz misses school every day to spend hours waiting with a handcart full of containers for a special train bringing precious water to people suffering a heatwave in India's desert state of Rajasthan.
Temperatures often exceed 45 degrees Celsius here, but this year the heat came early in what many experts say is more proof of climate change making life unbearable for India's 1.4 billion people.
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