A heat crisis in Telangana that burns beyond the thermometer

As Telangana battles one of its harshest summers in recent years, the rising burden of suspected heatstroke deaths and worsening urban heat stress are exposing the growing human cost of extreme weather.

Even as the State rolls out heat mitigation measures and advisories, questions remain over ground-level implementation and the true scale of heat-related fatalities.

Siddharth Kumar Singh reports on how the extreme heat is reshaping life, labour and survival ...