The India Energy Hour Presented by 101Reporters
Sep 3, 2026 · 52 min · 9 segments
What does it take to make a just transition actually work? For a state like Jharkhand, this is not an abstract question. Coal is deeply woven into its economy, livelihoods and the identity of entire…
Ramapati KumarGuest
Sandeep PaiHost
Shreya JaiHost
We have been talking about having you on the podcast for a while, so it's nice that you have agreed and I'm very delighted to have you on the podcast.
So as our tradition goes, before we get into the topic, which is very exciting about, you know, many years of Jharkhand created this task force, which we'll talk about in detail.
But, you know, now it's been a few years, so we thought it's a good time to take stock of where things are at and how things are evolving and so on.
Where were you born? Where did you grow up? How did you form Seed and got into climate and energy space? But basically, in a sense, tell us your story.
You know, like, you know, if I'm really honest, I would say that my journey into a climate work was not something, you know, like made somewhere.
Actually, you know, like it was more like I'm walking towards it, you know, even before I had any language for climate change or anything that I have heard in my life.
And if I would say that he was the natural environmentalist, I would say that even if anyone would have talked about this nomenclature called environmentalist, and he had a perfect understanding about the environment, he did not read anything in the textbook or anything like that.
The way that he did his farming, his understanding about the land, the water, the tree, the overall nature.
And that was my first classroom where I got all of those things from my grandfather.
And for those who do not know, is the home of India as one of the largest thermal power plant.
And that really made me thinking the way that the economy and other thing basically developed in around the township.
We have been talking about having you on the podcast for a while, so it's nice that you have agreed and I'm very delighted to have you on the podcast.
So as our tradition goes, before we get into the topic, which is very exciting about, you know, many years of Jharkhand created this task force, which we'll talk about in detail.
But, you know, now it's been a few years, so we thought it's a good time to take stock of where things are at and how things are evolving and so on.
Where were you born? Where did you grow up? How did you form Seed and got into climate and energy space? But basically, in a sense, tell us your story.
You know, like, you know, if I'm really honest, I would say that my journey into a climate work was not something, you know, like made somewhere.
Actually, you know, like it was more like I'm walking towards it, you know, even before I had any language for climate change or anything that I have heard in my life.
And if I would say that he was the natural environmentalist, I would say that even if anyone would have talked about this nomenclature called environmentalist, and he had a perfect understanding about the environment, he did not read anything in the textbook or anything like that.
The way that he did his farming, his understanding about the land, the water, the tree, the overall nature.
And that was my first classroom where I got all of those things from my grandfather.
And for those who do not know, is the home of India as one of the largest thermal power plant.
And that really made me thinking the way that the economy and other thing basically developed in around the township.
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