Too hot to handle

As heat waves leave everyone vulnerable, one solution could be rescheduling work hours.

The sheer number of TikTokers making omelettes on solar-heated pans tells us much about the heat wave that has engulfed Tarai districts in the past few days. Even the celebrity chef Santosh Shah could not resist the temptation of appearing in one such video with the unrelenting heat becoming the talk of the lowlands. As temperature crosses 40 degrees in several districts in central and eastern Tarai, daily life in the region has been disturbed. Several local levels there have rightly called for a shutdown of schools until the heat subsides. The schools that are still running should be immediately shut too until the wave passes. Continuing to run schools in this heat would be an injustice to the young minds that are there to learn rather than be victims of an unforgiving climatic condition and an apathetic administration.