New Delhi, May 2 -- Climate Change and You is a fortnightly newsletter written by Bibek Bhattacharya and Sayantan Bera. Subscribe to the newsletter to get it directly in your inbox.

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The great Indian summer heatwave is here, and it is already a scorching one. Right now, I'm in Kolkata, writing this newsletter even as the political climate heats up in the city. And this is happening in the midst of intense heat in Kolkata, where a potentially deadly combination of high heat and high humidity has turned working outdoors into a severe stress test for the human body.

In this, Kolkata is not alone, with large parts of the country in the grip of an intense heatwave. On Saturday, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) published...