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Look at the map again. Mumbai is at 32°C, next to the sea. Delhi is at 40°C, almost 900 km from the nearest coast. The sea cools Mumbai. We took Delhi's cooling away by chopping down its trees and pouring concrete everywhere. Since 2001, India has cut down forest bigger than the entire state of Mizoram. Trees do two things for a city. They give shade, and their leaves release water into the air. Strip those trees away and an Indian city runs 1 to 4°C hotter than the villages right next to it. Stack ACs on top. India has bought 5 crore air conditioners in just the last five years. But only about 10 out of every 100 Indian homes own one. The other 90 step out into streets that the rich neighbourhoods are heating further with their AC exhaust. Two days ago, all this cooling pushed our power grid to a record. ACs alone now eat as much electricity every evening as 30 big coal plants produce. In 2024, Indian hospitals saw 40,000 heatstroke cases. The official government count of heat deaths was 110. Across the world, heat deaths are normally 20 to 30 percent of heatstroke cases. That means 8,000 to 12,000 Indians likely died from heat last summer and were never counted. A 2024 study in the journal Environment International estimates the real number is closer to 1.5 lakh deaths every Indian summer. The Lancet's India report says we lost almost 12 lakh crore rupees in wages to heat in 2023 alone. Farmers and daily-wage labourers lost most of it. They are the ones standing under the sun while the rest of us complain about heat on Twitter from cooled rooms. Of 37 heat action plans the government has written for our cities and states, only 2 even bothered to map who to protect first. Only 3 had real funding behind them. The rest are PDFs that sit in drawers. The map shows India is the hottest country on Earth right now. Some of that is bad luck. A lot of it is what we cut down, what we covered in concrete, and what we never bothered to count.