Surviving the scorch

By Mujib Mashal and Hari Kumar

A masonry labourer taking a break to drink water. — Anindito Mukherjee/The New York Times

THE unbearable temperatures that arrive every summer in India are a threat to lives and livelihoods.

Medical services become bogged down. Economic output suffers.

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