A heat crisis in Telangana that burns beyond the thermometer
By the time 45-year-old Kandi Venkanna was brought to the Government Area Hospital in Bhadrachalam, the brutal summer heat had already taken a devastating toll on his body. Venkanna, a daily wage labourer and resident of Subash Nagar Colony in Bhadrachalam of Telangana’s Bhadradri Kothagudem, had been working at a construction site under the relentless…