Climate change is not nature’s plea for help. Rising temperatures is a warning. As always the victims are the poor.
Heatwave-driven mental health disorders and farmer suicides are steeply on the rise but authorities are yet to take concrete steps
The warning signs are flashing for all to see. But no one is bothered. Not the people, nor the polity.
Forget escaping to Shimla or Manali in summers. The heatwave has hit Himachal Pradesh with extreme weather events and water scarcity
India has no policy for rehabilitating climate refugees even as the people living along coastal West Bengal and Odisha are exposed to greater vulnerability
Farmers are waking up to the threat of extreme heatwaves across India. Are our policymakers listening?
While the heatwave in Vidarbha has claimed 25 lives this year—the highest in seven years—the poor and homeless continue to suffer its ill-effects
The marginalised and poor communities are at a greater risk of deadly heatwaves, disastrous floods and devastating cyclones
A brutal heatwave that has exacerbated India’s power crisis is threatening to short-circuit New Delhi’s COP26 commitments
An Adivasi woman writes about life in Maharashtra’s hottest area
The writer Kinshuk Gupta is a medical student and a poet
The favourite jheel of a mohalla’s kids is bulldozed in front of their eyes
An album of Shaheen Bagh becomes an almanac of the epic protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and National Register of Citizens (NRC)
Outlook photographers tell the brutal story of heatwave through the sufferings of people
Kavita Ezekiel Mendonca was an instructor of english, french and spanish before debuting as a poet in 1989