Apocalypse Now
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23/04/2007
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India Today (New Delhi)
Delhi 2020: They are already calling it the year without winter. From January itself, temperatures across northern India have soared to 35 degrees Celsius. Much of the Gangetic plain has been transformed into one vast dust bowl. The wheat crop has failed and farmers are committing suicide by the droves. Food riots have broken out as the government is no longer able to control the distribution. As disease and death strike with metronomic regularity, the smell of rotting flesh is all pervasive.
In a perverse irony, even as the North is sweltering under the heat wave, fierce unseasonal storms lash the West Coast.
Mumbai bears the brunt of their fury. Ravages of the drastic climate change have been evident over the previous years. The Arabian Sea has risen rapidly and much of Nariman Point has become inaccessible