I have been outside without an air conditioner in 120 to 127 degrees Fahrenheit. Have you?

I was about 27 years old then so I was still young enough to survive being out in the open without an air conditioner for about 24 to 36 hours while we were doing Mining Assaying in Gila Bend, Arizona. It was just my father and me and a Backhoe operator we had hired there in Arizona to help us with the assaying there.

The coldest it ever got there was around 100 degrees around day break. My father and I slept in the back of his pickup truck in the open air because we didn't want to get stung by scorpions on the ground or by rattlesnakes in the area who might get into your sleeping bag with you there on the desert then (even though it was so hot we didn't need sleeping bags because the coldest it got was 100 degrees around 6 am then.

The main problem I had was feeling like I was going to faint during the hottest part of the day. So, there was a windmill nearby with sulfur water that we couldn't drink but I could soak my t-shirt in it and get on my dualsport Honda 250 XL motorcycle which was a 1974 then because it was then 1975 and ride down the dry washes to cool off a little so I didn't pass out from the heat. I did this whenever I thought I might pass out in that much heat. The animals only water source was this sulfur smelling water that we wouldn't drink but the animals and birds there had no choice because that was all there was there.

So, I fully understand how people would die in New Delhi from 120 degrees or more heat without air conditioning especially if they had to work outside in it to make a living. My father and I were business owners at that time so we could choose when to do things and not die. But, others working for others could lose their jobs in places like New Delhi if they refused to work in the killing heat there.

We would work from about daybreak when there was enough light until around noon or so when it started to get hot and then intermittently through the day when we felt able to do this. Luckily, after a day or two of this we headed back to California and could turn the air conditioner on in our truck and be okay once again.