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SATYAPAL MENON 19TH OCTOBER, 2025 Since a decade global heads states have frequently put their heads together to hammer out a a universal solution against global warming. Climate change targets - reduction by 1.5°C to 2°C - and deadline - i.e., 2030 - was set. But, implementation was out of sync with the datelines. Consequently, over the years and till date, Nature has gone awry , unleashing its fury, in the form of glacier melts, melts floods, landslides and desertification. The reasons? Are all these global summits related to climate change proving to be a fiasco with commitments being confined to rhetoric and platitudes? Except for bits and pieces implementation of the action plans to restrict climate change, genuine endeavours to achieve the target of restri...

It began like any other monsoon morning in Bengal’s heartland—quiet, muggy, and deceptively calm. The sky hung low, layered with haze, as farmers in Bankura, East Bardhaman, and West Medinipur stepped barefoot into their fields. They had work to do—transplanting paddy, checking irrigation lines, feeding livestock—before the next round of rain. By mid-morning, the clouds thickened into a metallic mass. At 11:10 a.m., the first bolt of lightning fell. Within hours, the fields turned into sites of loss. By 2:50 p.m., eighteen men lay dead. There was no flood. No cyclone. No warning loud enough to be heard. Just a sky that cracked wide open, and didn’t close in time. It did not crackle. It did not warn. It sliced. By 2:50 p.m., eighteen men were dead—struck down by lightning in the very ...

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The Day Lightning Fell