While putting 1.3 billion people in lockdown in India due to the threats of the spread of COVID-19 might be the biggest social experiment in the history of humanity, its socio-economic impacts will not be equally spread. The shared impact of the pandemic along with the rising temperatures has brought to forefront the need for mainstreaming the practices enhancing the access to cooling, especially in developing countries like India that score relatively high on Gini’s coefficient exhibiting income inequalities and experience extreme heat in most of its parts for majority of the year. on one hand active cooling becomes essential to maintain food security and preserve the efficacy of the vaccines to actively fight the pandemic. On the other, it becomes imperative to reduce the impact of rising summer temperatures, specifically to avoid the spread of vector-borne diseases adding a significant multiplier to the already looming catastrophe on the health-care system.

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