Kundapura: India's new solar town

Padmakshi, who lives in Kundapura, in coastal Karnataka, never had any fear of gadgets. At least, she didn't show any in her eagerness to make her job in the kitchen easier. Perhaps she was a touch......

A finance system to light up lives

The main problem with programmes aimed at promoting solar energy is getting consumers to make the initial investment, that's usually quite large, needed to install the system. This is particularly......

Honouring Solar Mamas

Given the scale of India’s energy needs the numbers of ‘Solar Mamas’, as they have been called in a documentary film, may not seem very promising, rues Rajni Bakshi Bunker Roy,......

How this MIT engineer aims to light up rural India

A young entrepreneur with an engineering degree from India's premier engineering school and a postgraduate degree from the US's finest technical school develops an innovative service aimed at......