Scorched Summers: Generations Battle Extreme Heat in Bundelkhand

The increasingly hot summer months mean power outages, water shortages, restless nights, and heat stress. To understand how unbearable the summers have become, we spoke to people of different age groups in Uttar Pradesh. We wanted to see if the elders remembered a different summer and how the childhood summers of the younger generation compare to their recent summers as adults. To put the heat in India this year into context, the Union Health Ministry has recorded 143 heat-related deaths and over 40,000 suspected cases of heatstroke. Uttar Pradesh reported the highest number of deaths at 36, followed by other northern states including Rajasthan, Bihar, and Odisha, which have borne the brunt of the extreme weather. Last June in Uttar