El Niños have typically meant turbulence in India - a country where much of the working population depends on rainfed fields for their livelihood. That's because an El Nino make those life giving rains far more capricious. The really monster El Niños have changed India forever. For this piece I have focussed on the El …
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Open letter to Greta Thunberg on Choices
(Image from thehindu.com) Time to spend money and attention on adaptation Price water. Please. We do not have the luxury to waste water on growing low-yielding rice varieties and sustaining 300 million cows & buffaloes. However, the current machinery extracts significant rent from crises. Emergencies give procedural checks and balances a go-bye making an already leaky …
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