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The Heat Shift

Aishwarya Mohanty

Aishwarya Mohanty

23 Jun 2026 • 13 min read

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The last bus home: Beyond the heat advisory

A bus service in Udaipur district and its villages has cut migration to other states, offering many villagers the luxury of returning home every evening. But to catch the last bus home, they must work through the peak heat hours to protect their daily wages, even as the district’s heat advisories ask people to stay indoors.

Nupur Joshi

Nupur Joshi

19 Jun 2026 • 10 min read

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Who suffers the most when temperatures in the city rise?

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Rising temperatures affect everyone, but the inability to cool their bodies due to lack of electricity or inadequate water supply impacts informal migrant women workers more, exacerbated by poor housing, the double exposure to heat at home and low incomes

Aishwarya Mohanty

Aishwarya Mohanty

29 May 2026 • 10 min read

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‘It feels like sitting on a hot frying pan’: Do Heat Action Plans pass the labour test?

Heat Action Plans across Indian states and districts are increasingly introducing innovative measures to tackle the growing impacts of extreme heat. While there have been a few labour-friendly inclusions in city plans to mitigate heat impact, poor regulation worries campaigners

Ayush Krishna Tripathi

Ayush Krishna Tripathi

13 May 2026 • 9 min read

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‘Raining fire’: Untimely heat forces early migration from Uttar Pradesh

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An earlier onset of extreme heat is pushing Uttar Pradesh workers to leave home weeks earlier than they once did, rewriting the old patterns of migration

Prakhar Dobhal

Prakhar Dobhal

07 Jul 2025 • 1 min read

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Inside a brutal day with a migrant delivery rider

44°C. 21 deliveries. As little as ₹20 per order.
This is what it takes to deliver a lunch amidst a searing heatwave in Delhi.

Sapna Gopal

Sapna Gopal

23 Jul 2025 • 11 min read

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Boom or burden? Landour’s tourist rush tests the limits of a hill town

Surging tourism brings income and migrants — but also crowds, traffic, and climate strain — prompting new restrictions in a town ill-equipped for the influx.

Anuj Behal

Anuj Behal

16 Jun 2025 • 17 min read

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Pedalling through heatwaves in India’s bicycle capital

Scorching heat in Ludhiana grips migrant workers walking, cycling or taking buses to work – and even an early morning ride is a losing battle against heat stress.

Laasya Shekhar

Laasya Shekhar

03 Jun 2025 • 14 min read

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In furnace-like factories, the struggle for water and wage

Workers in spinning mills suffer from headaches, dehydration, infections and worse due to intense heat, poor ventilation and a lack of cooling, with little access to health services or time off

Omair Farooq

Omair Farooq

29 May 2025 • 1 min read

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When illness meets India’s rising heat

No doctors back home. No money for private care. For India’s poor, AIIMS Delhi is the last hope.But as they wait on pavements for cancer, kidney or heart treatment, they face another invisible threat: Delhi’s deadly heat

Hepzi Anthony

Hepzi Anthony

29 May 2025 • 11 min read

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In a 10×12 Mumbai tenement, the cost of staying cool

Mumbaikars living in the city's sprawling slums are spending more and more on air conditioners, coolers and exhaust fans, even they if can’t afford to, to deal with the extreme heat

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