‘Solar Man’ resigns as IIT-Bombay professor, hopes to take his Energy Swaraj Yatra overseas

MUMBAI: Chetan Singh Solanki , a senior faculty member at IIT Bombay, popularly known as ‘Solar Man’ and ‘Solar Gandhi of India’, has now resigned from one of the country’s most coveted teaching posts to step into a far harder role — persuading a billion people that human survival now hangs in the balance.

For him, climate change is no longer a distant policy debate but a “global emergency” already at the doorstep. He leads the change he asks of others. He works out of an office that breathes without air conditioning, and his consultation halls are lit not by fluorescent tubes but by daylight.