Pleasant Summer???????

...for a friend in India once sighed that a 'pleasant summer' is a Western concept!
English Translation:

How do you survive in such a Sweltering Heat?

How do you Survive in Such a Sweltering Heat?

The year the heat doesn’t kill us, we live.
Drop-by-drop we drink up life.
We fan ourselves with our own exhalations,
Every Year we play a game with Death.

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