Bengaluru Heat Crisis: A City That Ignored Climate, Now Burning From Within
Once known for its mild breeze tree-lined avenues, and cool evenings Bengaluru has now turned into a furnace. On World Environment Day 2025, the city that was once India’s “Garden City” now serves as a cautionary tale a metropolis brought to its knees by decades of unchecked growth, ecological neglect, and climate denial.
For sanitation workers like Nagalakshmi, the crisis isn’t theoretical. It’s seared into the skin. Each morning, she walks 6–7 kilometers sweeping streets under the relentless sun, without shade or a place to rest. “It is scorching hot,” she says. “If I feel unwell, there’s nowhere to sit. Even drinking water feels risky there are no toilets around.”
Nagalakshmi, like thousands of other workers, is paying the price for a transformation she never asked for a transform...
