Puri beach

Puri, a city sacred to Hinduism, home to an avatar of Vishnu in the temple of Jagannath, prohibited entry to Western visitors. The city leads to a long beach of fine sand but waves relentlessly and scorching sun. Until dusk falls, and then the Bengali holidaymakers are preparing to go to walk, barefoot, on the thin layer of water left by the retreating waves, and that reflects just a few minutes of agony, the last shades of pink from the sun in printing and dying to get rid of the clouds.

Thar Desert

In the picture, the Thar Desert, on which runs the border between India and Pakistan. Both countries have a border dispute dating back to independence and partition of the subcontinent in 1947. But in Thar tension does not reach the level it has in Kashmir. This area, in the Indian region of Rajasthan, has a sparse population and scattered. The foothills of Thar was the place chosen by India for its nuclear tests of 1998, which were condemned by the international community.

How to beat the heat when the thermometer touches the 50

New Delhi, June 14, 2007. - Put half a watermelon on his head, remove the umbrella of the street or throw cold water on the hair turban to acclimatize are some of the emergency measures which have used the Indians to fight these days from the elements in midsummer.
With temperatures during the week have even surpassed 50 degrees Celsius in the hottest spots in the country, the Indians have had to perform an exercise in stoicism to withstand the wrath of the sun and the frequent power outages that paralyzed the fans.
"We had the best sales of the story, but not only by the heat wave, but because more people have more money," said Efe Karamjeet Singh, a seller of air conditioners in the capital.
The energy crisis India is not an obstacle to more affluent families resort to massive use of devices to beat the heat, until a power outage and then everyone, rich and poor, are equally exposed to the summer .
In New Delhi, where apartments are more expensive plants and low-darker-protected, most citizens have to resort to the classic advice to drink plenty of water, eating cold food, stay home and avoid the sun and great efforts.
But among those who still have to work or live outdoors, the heat wave has brought priceless images, like a pair of half a watermelon vendors using a hat, a civilian taking a dip with his elephant or women who take the umbrella the street against the light rain.
The umbrella is a good ally of housewives: protects the head from the sun, but also serves to help the skin to darken, in a country where pale shades are so valued that many mention its light color in ads marriage as an inducement for a future partner.
"I have no heat. Echo cold water inside the turban before going out so refreshed me, "said Efe a long-haired student of Sikh religion, whose devotees can not get a haircut in his life.
In fact, the activity of the streets of New Delhi shows very clearly that the Indian citizen lives so naturally with the heat that many do not even wear jeans tight waive or corduroys, albeit with a good dose of deodorant against sweat.
"Sometimes it seems that people do not sweat, but that's because many are outdoors all day, are accustomed to," said Efe an office in the capital.
Despite the impression that everything is ticking, the latest flick of a heat wave, with highs of 45 degrees Celsius in Delhi and over 50 in Rajasthan, has left hundreds of people admitted for dizziness and viruses and more than two hundred dead, including seven prisoners from a prison in the capital who died of dehydration.
With a semi-arid climate in the air of New Delhi, known as "loo", float huge amounts of dust particles that prevent significant temperature drops at night: why dogs, seeking to avoid the hot asphalt, lie on the body of a car.
As hundreds of children challenged with dips Yamuna river pollution and the poor eat almost exclusively a cheap bread to stay fresh onion, and commend the delhíes is the arrival of the monsoon expected in the capital for the next day 29.
During the rainy season, which comes first for the south and then gradually moves north India is full of moisture-and flood-and umbrellas continue in the streets with the same heat, but not wet.