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The real problem with free electricity is the message it sends
May 13, 2026, 11:17 PM IST
Tamil Nadu’s announcement of 200 free units every two months for 1.46 crore households, at an additional cost of ₹1,730 crore annually, arrives at a strange moment in global energy politics. No, not because such…
May 13, 2026, 11:17 PM IST
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India’s heat isn’t the only problem, our AC addiction is
April 27, 2026, 11:15 PM IST
My city is simmering at 44 degrees, and I’m writing this from a room that feels perfectly comfortable. Not because it’s chilled to 20 degrees, but because a desert cooler is doing what this climate…
April 27, 2026, 11:15 PM IST
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India just lit a nuclear fire that could burn for a hundred years
April 12, 2026, 11:50 PM IST
On 6 April 2026, inside a contained steel vessel on the southern coast of Tamil Nadu, something quietly extraordinary happened. A controlled nuclear chain reaction was initiated inside India’s Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam,…
April 12, 2026, 11:50 PM IST
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The target is not the transition
April 5, 2026, 11:09 AM IST
There is a particular kind of institutional dishonesty that does not involve lying. It involves announcing the right destination, then doing nothing meaningful to get there, and treating the announcement as the work itself. The…
April 5, 2026, 11:09 AM IST
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The molecule India has been waiting for
March 27, 2026, 10:49 PM IST
Somewhere in a Pune laboratory, two methanol molecules are being stripped of a water molecule and fused into something quietly significant. The product is dimethyl ether, DME. The process is indigenous. The patent is Indian….
March 27, 2026, 10:49 PM IST
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Winter is no longer a season. It is a memory.
March 20, 2026, 4:15 PM IST
There is a particular cruelty in what the latest Climate Central analysis reveals, and it is not the numbers themselves. It is the timing. The data covers December 2025 through February 2026. Those are winter…
March 20, 2026, 4:15 PM IST
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Asia’s energy crisis isn’t bad luck. It’s a choice.
March 13, 2026, 10:43 PM IST
Somewhere in the finance ministries of Islamabad, Dhaka, and Manila, officials are running the same calculations they ran in 2022. How much can we subsidise? How long can we hold the tariff line? How do…
March 13, 2026, 10:43 PM IST
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India’s EV problem isn’t policy. It’s plumbing.
February 25, 2026, 8:24 PM IST
There is a particular kind of optimism that feels productive but isn’t. It announces targets, celebrates milestones, and mistakes momentum for progress. India’s electric vehicle story, at least so far, has been a little too…
February 25, 2026, 8:24 PM IST
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Freight emissions accounting is India’s missing climate link
February 17, 2026, 4:24 PM IST
India often talks about decarbonising transport, but rarely about the uncomfortable first step. Counting emissions honestly. Freight is the invisible backbone of India’s economy. It moves our food, fuels our factories, and feeds our cities….
February 17, 2026, 4:24 PM IST
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Clean energy transition is moving fast. The richest countries are not.
February 10, 2026, 3:19 PM IST
There is a comforting story many wealthy countries still like to tell themselves. That they lead on climate. That they set ambition, create norms, and others follow. The latest data on global wind and solar…
February 10, 2026, 3:19 PM IST
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85 seconds to midnight. And we’re still arguing about the alarm
February 3, 2026, 7:18 PM IST
There are moments when a metaphor stops being symbolic and starts feeling uncomfortably literal. The Doomsday Clock moving to 85 seconds to midnight is one of them. On January 27, 2026, the Bulletin of the…
February 3, 2026, 7:18 PM IST
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India is building faster than its climate risk can be insured
January 24, 2026, 11:09 PM IST
There is a silent assumption underpinning India’s infrastructure boom. That no matter how extreme the climate becomes, the financial system will somehow absorb the damage. Roads will be rebuilt. Ports repaired. Power plants restored. Losses…
January 24, 2026, 11:09 PM IST
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Are we rushing rooftop solar without counting the urban costs?
January 14, 2026, 10:59 AM IST
India’s rooftop solar story is often told as a moral victory. Clean energy. Energy independence. Citizen participation in the green transition. The narrative is comforting, aspirational, and politically convenient. But it is also incomplete. Rooftop…
January 14, 2026, 10:59 AM IST
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When oil dictates war: Why Venezuela exposes the true cost of energy dependence
January 4, 2026, 11:10 PM IST
The early hours of January 3, 2026, marked not just another military intervention, but a stark reminder of a uncomfortable truth: as long as the world runs on oil, military might will shadow energy security….
January 4, 2026, 11:10 PM IST
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India’s lost megaphone: Why public service ads must return to climate and citizenship
December 4, 2025, 9:46 PM IST
Remember “Bijli hai shakti, isey vyarth na jalao”? Or “Mile sur mera tumhara”? An entire generation grew up with public service advertisements that shaped collective consciousness around energy conservation, water scarcity, and national integration. These…
December 4, 2025, 9:46 PM IST
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Adaptation is not aid. It’s smart economics
June 10, 2025, 10:23 PM IST
Imagine spending one rupee and getting ten in return — not from luck or speculation, but from investing in a safer, more stable future. That’s exactly what the latest study by the World Resources Institute (WRI) suggests….
June 10, 2025, 10:23 PM IST
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I’m not anti-modern. I just refuse their version of it
June 3, 2025, 4:39 PM IST
It often begins in conversation. A gentle sparring of ideas with a dear friend—someone I respect deeply. “If you reject western modernity,” they ask, “then what is modernity to you?” It’s a fair question. One…
June 3, 2025, 4:39 PM IST
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Air-conditioned apathy: Why we’re ignoring the heat that’s harming unborn lives
May 19, 2025, 9:55 PM IST
There’s a quiet emergency unfolding across the globe- one that’s burning not just forests or glaciers, but futures. And it’s not just an environmental story anymore. It’s a maternal one. A staggering new analysis from…
May 19, 2025, 9:55 PM IST
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Google’s AI overviews are convenient—but they come with 30x the emissions
April 9, 2025, 11:27 PM IST
Every time you make a Google search now, the first thing you see is an AI Overview. It’s clean. Precise. Summarised like a school topper’s notes. Most times, your search ends right there. But scroll a…
April 9, 2025, 11:27 PM IST
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Poverty of time: The hidden inequality shaping our lives
March 31, 2025, 3:46 PM IST
Time is the one resource we all receive in equal measure—24 hours a day. Yet, the way we experience time is anything but equal. The Time Use in India, 2024 report exposes a stark reality: time is…
March 31, 2025, 3:46 PM IST
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