India Heat Summit 2025

May 27 – 28, 2025

Honoured for participating in this important panel discussion. The timing could not be any better – with much of Indo-Gangetic belt experiencing mercury rising close to 50 C. Excellent effort by Aarti Khosla of ‘Climate Trends’ and the wonderful team.

The excessive heat leading to the rising Planetary fever is an outcome of growing energy imbalance. Quoting renowned environmentalist Bill McKibben: we are now witnessing 400000 Hiroshima bombs equivalent of extra heat trapped per day. Our oceans which absorb 90% of the heat – are as a result boiling. However, we are paying scant attention to the most critical climate regulator/s. Six of the nine planetary boundaries have been breached and the earth systems are under serious pressure.

Regrettably, we remain conditioned to end such discussions on a ‘positive’ note. That sounds akin to the band playing on a sinking Titanic.

In conversation with Archana Chaudhary, Vaibhav Dange and Deven Pabru