India Development Review

Nanavu, by Athulya Pillai, is a silent comic that traces everyday life along Kerala's tidal edges narrated through the eyes of a girl and her small ritual of keeping her slippers above water. Across Kerala's coastline, tidal flooding slowly erodes homes, health, and stability. For communities living here, the water never quite recedes. The Kerala government has now recognised tidal flooding as a state-specific natural disaster, following years of advocacy from panchayats in the region.

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India’s heatwaves are lasting longer, arriving earlier, and killing more people than before. But rising temperatures are only part of the story.

Underreported deaths, outdated heat definitions, reactive planning, and missing funding all shape who survives extreme heat — and who doesn’t. In this edition of , we unpack the systems making heatwaves more lethal in India.

➡️What do you think is missing from India’s heatwave response? Comment below and share this post to continue the conversation.

👉🏾Swipe to learn more about the gaps in how India counts, plans for, and responds to extreme heat.

🔗Visit the links below to read the articles this post is based on:

‘Extreme heat in India needs funds to fix’ by Tamanna Dalal: https://idronline.org/article/climate-emergency/extreme-heat-in-india-needs-funds-to-fix/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=sm

‘No respite in sight: India’s heatwaves are here to stay’ by Chandra Bhushan: https://idronline.org/article/climate-emergency/it-is-time-the-government-acknowledges-heatwaves-as-a-real-threat/?utm_source=facebookinstagram&utm_medium=sm

For a more in-depth understanding, read more articles on idronline.org, because social impact deserves more than just a headline.

Delhi has nearly 18,000 parks and gardens, but for many children living in bastis, play is still out of reach. Locked school grounds, park restrictions imposed by RWAs, and unaffordable private facilities mean that something as fundamental as play becomes a privilege rather than a right. As open spaces shrink and privatisation expands, children from informal settlements are increasingly excluded from the spaces meant for everyone.

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Locked out: Why children from Delhi’s bastis cannot access playgrounds Delhi has thousands of parks, but children from informal settlements face locked gates, privatisation, and exclusion. Play becomes a privilege.

The social change sector is burning out. But what if we’re measuring burnout incorrectly in the first place?

👉🏾 In this article, Naghma Mulla and Shruti Shibulal unpack the gaps in how burnout and well-being are currently measured in the social sector, and why better data is essential for building meaningful responses.

Burnout in the social sector is being measured incorrectly The data on well-being in civil society is riddled with problems: vague definitions, Western bias, and a near-total absence of grassroots voices.

Every year, the social sector gathers in air-conditioned rooms to solve problems that exist outside them. The plastic bottles, to their credit, are the only ones in the room who fully grasp the irony.

Read the full article by Salman Faheem here:

The plasticity of the social sector Find out what happens when a conference on heatwaves happens in a five-star hotel.