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Five issues missing from our conversations on heat

The rising temperatures and heat waves are taking a toll on people across India. Last summer, at least 733 heat-related deaths and more than 40,000 heatstroke cases were recorded in 17 states between March and June, a report showed. Temperatures…
By QoC EditorialMay 2, 2025
  • Climate Change
  • Heat Waves
  • Urban Planning

Community gardens redefine green, help combat heat

Collectively created and managed by communities in their neighbourhoods, community gardens, more than public or private parks, not only make the space…
By Poorvi AmmanagiMay 2, 2025
  • Climate Change
  • Heat Waves
  • Urban Development

Climate’s sizzling frontier: Northeast heats up, must plan with nature

Summer temperatures have risen to record highs and, importantly, nights have become warmer in Guwahati with the rapid urbanisation. People have taken…
By Sugandhi PraptiMay 2, 2025
  • Climate Change
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  • Heat Waves

A feminist lens to address heat waves in India

The gendered impact of heat is beginning to be acknowledged but the need is for a feminist approach to address the issues…
By Sarita Fernandes and Ruhie KumarMay 2, 2025
  • Heat Waves
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‘Coping with heat isn’t an individual problem, it’s a systemic challenge’

The unequal impact of heat on the marginalised in India’s cities is no longer in question. The chasm is deepening between those…
By Jashvitha DhageyMay 2, 2025
  • Climate Change
  • Heat Waves
  • Inequality

How Delhi’s poor and homeless beat the heat on their own

The country’s capital recorded this year’s first heat wave in early April, with temperatures touching 40.2 degrees Celsius. With summer making an…
By Nivea Jain and Israr KhanMay 2, 2025
  • Climate Change
  • Movements
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‘Deep flaw or blind spot in Indian environmentalism is that it largely ignored cities’

Cities built at the cost of ecology are becoming uninhabitable and unsustainable. Between the Gandhian perspective which is hostile to city life…
By Team QoCMarch 7, 2025
  • Climate Change
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Feminism meets environmentalism but women left out of decision-making

As women, across barriers of caste and class and other social indices, assert themselves, they also touch upon environmental issues that are deeply tied to their lives, living conditions, work and more. They raise voices as women demanding gender justice…
By Jashvitha DhageyMarch 7, 2025
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Reading Guha: India’s environmental history that’s “partially usable”

India’s environmentalism did not start with the Chipko movement, says historian and author Ramachandra Guha. His latest book Speaking with Nature –…
By Team QoCMarch 7, 2025
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Resistance, confrontation,
anti-extractivist struggles in the Global South

Rising heat waves, illegal mining, degradation of water bodies and depletion of trees are increasing across the world, especially in countries of…
By Nikeita SarafMarch 7, 2025

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