Floods & Heatwaves in India – Is Climate Change Now Personal?
- Neha Kumari
- Jul 13
- 4 min read
2025 is turning out to be one of the climate-worsted year in India in the ever-recent memory. Whether it is flash floods in Himachal or heatwaves breaking records in Delhi, the wrath of nature is no more miles away, it is bashing its doors.
The question arises whether Indians have finally got to make climate change personal?
We can also see it in the news.
It is being felt at our own homes.
When the Sun Burns than Ordinary
Delhi witnessed the all-time high temperature of 49.9o C in June in which all past records were broken.
Schools were closed, metro stations were converted into shelter and hospitals were jammed with problems that caused heatstroke.
To go to work was not only uncomfortable to many people but it was a matter of life and death.
The worst hit people were the daily wage earners and street vendors.
To be a native, they could not afford to keep at home out of the heat.
When Rains Come In one Fell Swoop
As some corners of India were burning, sections were submerging.
In Uttarakhand there was excessive downpour resulting in flash floods that washed away houses, buses and bridges in a matter of minutes.
On National Television a 12 year old girl in Joshimath was seen shedding tears and saying, Paani sab kuch le gaya ghar bhi, maa bhi.
It is not merely weather after all.
It’s trauma.
A Broken Hope of a Farmer
Forty-five-year-old farmer Ram Prasad Yadav of Bihar also lost his paddy fields as he saw them washed away in the second year running. The previous year was drought and now it is flood.
When dry they die and when it is rainy they drown he says as tears come to his eyes.
Climate change is not a world problem to farmers, such as him.
It is a day to day penalty.
Silent Crisis of Climate and Mental Health
Crops and houses are not the only thing that is being destroyed.
Fear, nervousness, and despair are also increasing in the regions affected by climate.
A sharp increase of depression cases was recorded among the youth in Gujarat because schools, roads, and play ground were destroyed due to floods which led psychologists to report the cases.
The mind would not be calm when the future does not seem to be safe.
All this is going on in silence.
Urban India is Not safe as well
Roads are flooded in Mumbai, sundowns in Bengaluru and un-built flyovers in Hyderabad, cities are breaking under climatic strain as well. The events that were termed as once in 100 years are taking place now every monsoon.
Climate change is not an upcoming menace.
It is a current catastrophe.
It Is Not Only Nature- People Count Too
This fuel is being added by unplanned constructions, illegal mining, forest cutting and mismanagement of wastes. In 2025, rivers flood Delhi once again due to encroached riverbanks and flood-prone drainage. It is not only climate, but also our decisions, which aggravate the situation.
It does not even take too much effort to put the blame on nature.
Being accountable is more difficult.
What the Experts have to Say
Climate scientists have cautioned that India is about to experience a wet gets wetter, dry gets drier. It translates into the more extreme occurrences of the increased rainfalls, longer dry periods, and chaotic season changes.
IMD revealed that more than 65 per cent of the Indian districts are currently climate-vulnerable.
However, the policies are not proactive.
Why not do it now before bad tidings happen?
Days When Climate Change Gets In Your Bedroom
Now it is you who pays high rates on your AC, pays a premium price on your milk and that weekend plan you had gotten to a nearby river is a no-go now since a highway is under flood.
You understood, when your kid was not able to go to school: because of the smog or heat, climate change is not a headline. it is home.
it requires more than sympathy.
It requires intervention.
What Can We Do?
It begins with small things, like not wasting water, not wasting AC, planting trees, buying the products of local farmers, and voting in favour of environmental friendly policies.
However it also involves us roaring our mouths, asking why we must put up with bad infrastructure and shouting at bad environmental planning.
We do not want to wait until another disaster wakes us up.
There is no time like the present.
Conclusion: This Time: It is Personal
The floods are not simply figures. The heatwaves do not consist only of temperature graphs.
The shootings are real, hurtful, traumatizing ones, and happen to real humans, the one you might know.
Climate change is no longer knocking.
It is in the house at present.
📅 By News Anek Digital Desk | July 13, 2025
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