You learn the hard way - racing toward dappled shade in a state of emergency - you should have stayed indoors! The daylight hours become slow, peeling back upon one another until the heat has worn even itself out. With signs of human life slowed to an all but imperceptible pulse, only vital signs remain. Time wears on below the unrelenting sky as wilted vegetation and sunbleached buildings beg for mercy until at last, Finally! shadows begin to lengthen. You greedily gulp deep breaths before the air stills and humidity casts its sticky oppression over nightfall.
Congratulations! You have survived another day in a tropical heat that takes no prisoners. Welcome to South India.
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