El Nino coming? Why the ‘little boy’ spells big trouble for India.

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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Climate Change and India’s water

(A version of this appeared first in Firstpost on Sep 19, 2018) Undoubtedly, the water situation of India, which asks about a fifth of the world’s population to survive on less than 1/30th of the world’s water, is precarious. This is now. What about the future? India’s population is growing, getting wealthier, and, oh yes, …

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