Summer in Guwahati has taken a harsher turn this year. While the heat has always been expected, it now arrives with unwelcome companions—dust-filled air, endless traffic snarls, and frequent power outages.
The city’s landscape is rapidly transforming. Where leafy trees once offered shade, construction cranes dominate the skyline. Flyover projects—some incomplete, others indefinitely delayed—loom over neighborhoods already struggling with the heat. For residents living near these development zones, progress feels more like punishment.
Areas like Dighalipukhuri, Noonmati, and around the old Cycle Factory in Lal Ganesh are bearing the brunt. Power cuts have shifted from being a rare inconvenience to a daily ordeal, happening once or multiple times a day.
What was once tolerable summer discomfort has now become a test of patience and endurance. With mounting dust, suffocating humidity, and erratic electricity supply, the season has turned unforgiving, and for many, even the promise of urban growth feels like a burden too heavy to bear.
