Is the weather very hot these days or humid like never before? Most of us would answer the question as both hot and humid. We have virtually been forced indoors. So is it a wise decision to extend summer holidays on educational institutions in some regions? The majority of our school buildings are not well ventilated. The dominant view and perhaps, right one, is that as part of a developing country they should learn to work hard in tough circumstances.
Private entrepreneurs have entered the sphere of education not for philanthropic reasons. So far as the Government schools are concerned it is already considered an achievement that these are running and are well maintained. Elsewhere in the country we have places which are air-conditioned and where the people can combine work and pleasure. There are air-conditioned libraries. One can spend hours browsing through national and international publications without having to wipe off sweat from one's face. Shopping malls in metropolitan cities are hot haunts of people. Lot many cities don't have any such facility yet.
Climate counts but in matching the pace of life we have completely forgotten that. Every year the sea level is rising by 6 inches and soon we all will drown. But we don’t care for that, rather we care more as to what levels we have achieved in regard to the turnovers every year. It is high time we think of giving not only better homes and better amenities to coming generations but a healthy environment to live. Planting more trees around can just be a step to the big leap.
The general advice in this weather is that we should drink a lot of water. It will make up for the loss on account of evaporation of sweat. Hot, dry weather any day is better than hot, humid weather. Now we can't escape it. It makes its presence felt by taking a toll on our energy and enthusiasm. One must, however, give credit to human instinct for survival that many of us are able to convert both hot and humid as expressions into varying applications. To cite a popular example, our movies and film stars are sometimes described as hot. Of course, some of the movies are "humid" as well depending upon their ingredients. Not many thinkers, it seems, have liked humidity; they have avoided it even while twisting "hot" to make it rather cool. As ingenuous a person as Albert Einstein has, for instance, come up with a gem to explain his theory of relativity: "Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity."
There is no reason why we should allow our lives to be completely bogged down. Let us take this weather too in stride and wait for the pleasant one.