I need to reset my thermostat
Our nation is going through, supposedly, one of the worst heat waves in history. The challenge this year, it seems, is that it happened much earlier. I am not sure if temperatures are higher than last year, but the heat wave has come earlier than previous years. Traveling and talking to friends across the nation, every community talks about how this year is worse than the last. Bangalore, Vellore which we experienced, Nagpur and Delhi, friends talking about it. (But then, I hear it every year). But the hope is that this too will pass, at least in some parts of our nation. But this would have left its destruction, with a few lives lost, crops failing, personal economy challenges for rural agrarian life. These will be just a few numbers that will appear in the media for a few days, and then be forgotten. The thing I love most these days is the car AC, with its auto mechanism. It has a built‑in thermostat and adjusts the flow of cool air to maintain the temperature at wh...