Summer is here. In Northern California, we are inching closer to the 100 F/37 C mark. Heatwaves have, of course, pushed India over the mark already. There was this viral video from a few weeks ago showing a woman in Sonpeur baking chapatis on a car’s bonnet under the blazing hot sun. Even watching the video, I could feel Loo winds on my skin. Many years of my childhood were spent in the Murshidabad district of Bengal where the summer’s heat could be particularly unbearable. I carry the memory of that time in my body, so much so that I