Banda recorded 48.2 C, or 118.8 F, in May, and when AP reporters visited in June, vegetable workers started at 4 in the morning in 30 C heat, a hospital treated heat illness, and some residents sought sleep on a railway platform [1].

The paper's July 13 account of why overnight heat matters said forecast lows become a care problem when bodies and homes cannot cool; Banda supplies dated records of that exposure, not a report of July 16 weather.

Munni Devi, 70, and her sons unload vegetables before dawn because missing a day means losing income, yet returning home does not guarantee relief because she told AP that power can fail for hours, stopping ceiling fans while her grandchildren are sprayed with a hose [1].

District hospital staff described more summer patients with dehydration and other heat-related illness without providing a citywide toll, the profile did not measure how often or how widely power failed, and climatologist Maximiliano Herrera's count of Banda as Earth's hottest observed location on seven days this year was an expert tracking record rather than an official global census [1].

The June scenes also show residents and dogs sleeping near the station and volunteers installing birdhouses and water bowls, but no auditable same-day X post was recovered, so a hottest-city verdict remains unobserved and the useful record is unequal exposure: who can stop work, run a fan, reach care or find a cooler place to sleep [1].

-- PRIYA SHARMA, Delhi