Democracy meets extreme heat: India's elections in a warming climate

India is campaigning through temperatures that make outdoor activity physiologically dangerous — and the political class is in denial. Lead with a wet-bulb number and a named fatality if available. Structural point: the world's largest democracy is discovering that civic rituals (rallies, door-knocking, polling queues) don't scale to 45C. Follow-up to the India election turnout story already in the ledger.