Nishant Saxena

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....

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.

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....

There is a particular cruelty in what the latest Climate Central analysis reveals, and it is not the numbers themselves. It is the timing.

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. And the timing, though few have said so plainly, could not be more deliberate.

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.

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, and for the first time in the country's seven-decade nuclear journey, the second stage of Homi Bhabha's original vision came alive. Not metaphorically. Literally. Neutrons were flying, fission was happening, and a country that has spent decades being told it lacks uranium to sustain a serious nuclear programme just demonstrated that it may not need much uranium at all.

My city is simmering at 44 degrees, and I'm writing this from a room that feels perfectly comfortable.

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.

For generations across North India, Nautapa marked those familiar nine days of punishing late-May heat. People planned around it. Homes were built to endure it. Life slowed down in the afternoons and resumed after sunset.