Wrong! The answer is a sleepy little town in Ladakh called Dras, and it does not just win the “coldest in India” title but it is officially the second-coldest inhabited place on the entire planet, beaten only by Siberia’s Verkhoyansk. Temperatures here have dropped to a brutal -60°C in the past, and even on an “average” winter night, the mercury happily sits around -30°C to -40°C. For context, this place is cold enough to freeze a thrown cup of hot water mid-air before it hits the ground.
