{"id":646857,"date":"2025-09-18T11:59:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T06:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=646857"},"modified":"2025-09-18T13:00:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T07:30:01","slug":"solar-man-resigns-as-iit-bombay-professor-hopes-to-take-his-energy-swaraj-yatra-overseas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/solar-man-resigns-as-iit-bombay-professor-hopes-to-take-his-energy-swaraj-yatra-overseas\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Solar Man\u2019 resigns as IIT-Bombay professor, hopes to take his Energy Swaraj Yatra overseas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: Chetan Singh Solanki , a senior faculty member at IIT Bombay, popularly known as \u2018Solar Man\u2019 and \u2018Solar Gandhi of India\u2019, has now resigned from one of the country\u2019s most coveted teaching posts to step into a far harder role \u2014 persuading a billion people that human survival now hangs in the balance.<\/p>\n<p>For him, climate change is no longer a distant policy debate but a \u201cglobal emergency\u201d 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: Chetan Singh Solanki , a senior faculty member at IIT Bombay, popularly known as \u2018Solar Man\u2019 and \u2018Solar Gandhi of India\u2019, has now resigned from one of the country\u2019s most coveted teaching posts to step into a far harder role \u2014 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 \u201cglobal emergency\u201d 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}