India, April 2 -- In an era defined by climate action and the global push toward clean energy, coal is often cast as the elephant in the room. Yet, recent geopolitical upheavals, wars in the Middle East, and the ongoing liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and gas crisis have forced policymakers to realise a more complicated reality: coal, despite its environmental costs, remains indispensable to global energy security, especially for emerging economies like India to realise Viksit Bharat 2047 vision in the short and midterm. The resurgence of coal is not a failure of climate ambition or climate action; rather, it is a mirror showing the reflection of structural vulnerabilities in the global energy system, which has never been fair for the Globa...