everyone keeps asking me about the heat. how i’m acclimatizing and readjusting to the heat. i quite literally have to pause for a minute before i can answer that question. in that minute, i try and figure out where the person is coming from where they’re asking me that question. i mean the heat is quite quite blazingly intense, i’ll admit, but before i can even begin to reckon with the heat, i’m stunned by the security/lack thereof and the fear that has settled deep deep within society. it is this lawlessness and despair and complete lack of faith in statehood that shakes me.
perhaps talking about the weather is easier than asking someone how vulnerable they feel on a daily level? or how they respond to news about abductions of people they know?
and yees, it has been 40 degrees celsius. but there are the monsoon rains (magical in Punjab). however, the rains bring flooding in sind.
