DELHI RISING
Delhi does not wait to be asked. It adapts, endures, and keeps moving through heat that would stop most cities, and Delhi Rising asks what it would look like if the city finally moved with its people.
STAND WITH DELHI
Every summer is hotter than the last. But across Delhi, people are already building the city they deserve. Add your name to a movement turning heat into action.
What people Imagined
IMAGINED LOUD. ACTING LOUDER.
The Heat Diaries
Forty households. Twenty from Sunder Nagri, ten from the middle class, ten street vendors. Each one documenting what extreme heat actually does to a body, a budget, and a day. Not statistics. Not projections. Real records, kept by real people, building the case that heat is not an act of nature but a consequence of decisions. And decisions can change.
The Common Space at Sunder Nagri
In one of Delhi’s most heat-exposed neighbourhoods, residents did not wait for a plan. They became one. A community-designed, ecologically built common space, shaped by local knowledge and local need. Shade, rest, water, community. What every neighbourhood deserves. What Sunder Nagri built first.
Delhi Rising in Pictures
Neighbours circle up, imagination begins
Bookshelves witness citizens dreaming aloud
Heads bow together, ideas sharpen
The circle grows, visions multiply
Living rooms turn into dream labs
Colourful pens sketch a greener city
Courtyards fill with music and vision
Citizens paint their dreams brick by brick
Blooms rise from a bare wall
City’s arch rises, citizen’s hands guide it
Citizens measure heat, block by block
