India, Feb. 24 -- The world today is increasingly getting split into two kinds of countries. The first group, which features the US, among others, has abundant oil and gas and is happy to continue with that energy model. The second group, which features India, does not. So, for us, clean energy is not just about climate - it is about affordability, resilience, and security. That is why the clean energy transition matters so profoundly here.

For two centuries, industrialisation everywhere was powered by fossil fuels. India is now taking a different path - industrialising on the back of cheap solar power and batteries instead of fossil fuels.

And yet, this is not fully and widely appreciated. Let us consider income-level comparisons to ge...