Letters To The Editor Motivated

Climate change used to be that thing your cousin from abroad mentioned while nibbling gluten-free brownies. Now? It's here. It's in your armpits, your nosebleeds, your prescriptions, your health records, and your mum's dizzy spells.

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And it's barging into our hospitals – uninvited, unfiltered and, naturally, unfunded.

Dhaka has just endured one of the worst heatwaves in recorded history. Except we didn't really endure it; we sweated, we wheezed, we staggered around like dazed kebabs in an open tandoor. The government, ever efficient, issued guidelines, "Stay indoors," as if we all had the luxury of lounging in centrally air-conditioned drawing rooms, sipping electrolyte water and waiting for foreign remittance. Most of us were marinating in rooftop heat, trapped in tin sheds, or passing out on public buses that felt like mobile saunas with steering wheels.

Let's talk healthcare, that miraculous thing we keep expecting to work despite treating it like the last kid picked in a game of cricket. During the heatwave, hospitals were flooded with patients with heatstroke, dehydration, asthma, and rashes – the full buffet of climate-induced ailments. Doctors were trying to resuscitate fainting grandmothers while wiping sweat

Sir, The public in India has witnessed instances of politicians in power being imprisoned on serious corruption and other charges, but continuing to discharge their functions from inside the jail, as if it is business as usual. This has made 'governance in India', the laughing stock of the world.

As a step towards cleansing the rot, the government has introduced the '130th Constitution Amendment Bill, 2025' that provides for sacking PMs, CMs and Ministers from office, who have been in jail for over 30 days. If an accused is unable to get bail within 30 days, it must be due to the serious nature of the offense.

Allowing such a person to use the prison as an office, doubtless undermines constitutional morality and public trust, as rightly argued

off their own brows. And all this in buildings that haven't been renovated since the British Raj, with ceiling fans that sound like dying goats, and ventilation systems that give up by noon.