Aditi Roy Ghatak
Aditi is India correspondent for Climate Home News. She set standards in investigative economic journalism in India in the 1980s as leader writer and business editor with the Statesman. In 1994 she started ARG Syndication a knowledge resource company. Climate change and agriculture have been central to much of the syndication's and her own work in recent times. She lives in Kolkata.
US exports of tar sands waste are fuelling Delhi’s air pollution crisis
India has emerged as the world’s largest importer of petroleum coke, an oil byproduct that is now a major cause of pollution in the capital
India’s floods expose poor countries’ total vulnerability to climate change
In West Bengal, residents say Hurricane Harvey in the US is “no comparison” to devastation for which their country left them woefully unprepared
Solar has not beaten coal in the race to electrify India
India’s future is still tied to coal and fixing woeful inefficiency of plants will create huge new generation at a price solar cannot match
Modi and Adani: the old friends laying waste to India’s environment
India’s environment has been subjugated to the whims of the prime minister’s industrial cronies. How can the world believe him on climate change?
Supreme Court loss creates new problem for Adani’s Australian mine
Indian ruling means Adani will be unable to manipulate price of coal overseas then seek escalations in cost of power back home
India subsidises electricity for the rich while millions lack access
While over 20% of India’s population has no access to electricity, the richest 40% of the population gets highly subsidised power