Salaam to Coal Miners of the Country
An unprecedented and prolonged heatwave is sweeping across the Indian subcontinent.
Reimagining Renewable Energy for this Earth Day
22nd April 2022 will be the 52nd year since the observation of Earth Day. A day that marked the birth of the modern environment movement across the West in the back drop of protests against war...
An office memorandum, a committee, and lack of clear objectives mark Women’s Empowerment by MNRE
In yet another hasty, half-hearted, hallucinational, last minute tokenistic action to showcase something to the world, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has issued an office memorandum on the 10th of March to...
Gender and Energy
India’s commitments at the 26th Conference of Parties of the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (COP 26) held in Glasgow set clear targets for 2030: increasing non fossil fuel energy capacity to 500...
A Failed Approach: Parliamentary Standing Committee Report on Energy
The Twenty First report of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Energy (2021-22) titled ‘FINANCIAL CONSTRAINTS IN RENEWABLE ENERGY SECTOR’ that was presented to Lok Sabha on February 03, 2022 Laid in Rajya Sabha on...
Budget 2022: Plenty Parley, Paltry Provision!
In the key features of the Budget 2022 document, there is the mention of the terms energy transition and climate action twice. Particularly under the goals of the Amrit Kaal and the four priorities.
Reminiscing an annotated page from my field notes
As we drove on the untarred road, passing through brick walls sparsely covered with cow dung cakes, we reached the village of Valluru. A rather sunny day in January 2019. It was here that...
Financing Ecosystem Restoration with Nature Based Solutions
It’s 5 decades since the UN General Assembly designated June 5th as World Environment Day, marking the first day of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment in 1972. And the first World Environment...
COVID-19: Why we must reorganise cities to deal with the third wave
As ambulances siren through streets and social media is filled with desperate pleas for beds, ICUs, oxygen and Remdesivir, phones keep ringing with news of relatives, friends and contacts falling sick and many losing...
When the sun sets this year, a small village weeps
As the year comes to an end, the state of Karnataka feels proud of its renewable energy targets. And that it is on par with California when it comes to the generation and use...
Where Do We Stand Five Years After the Paris Agreement?
India offers a case study for reducing greenhouse gas emissions It was five years ago this month, December 2015, when the globe’s nations came together in Paris to chart a path for addressing the...
Smart Cities: The need for a critical engagement
Cities are ever dynamic. The dynamic landscape of cities is a reflection, a miniature representation of societal interactions throughout history, static in its built forms and but constantly reinventing in contemporary ways of living....