In Their Elements

Описание: In 2003, in the high, quiet cold of Losar in the Lahaul & Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh, Pragya took its very first step, a Solar–Wind Hybrid System conceived and installed at a time when renewable energy was still more hope than habit. In those early years of the new millennium, when the technology was tentative and the path uncertain, it was an act of faith: in ideas, in people, and in the possibility of a different future.

Twenty-two years later, that first act of belief has travelled farther than anyone might have imagined. From the rarefied air of the mountains to the shifting, tidal edges of the delta, Pragya’s work in bringing clean, green, dependable power, has quietly grown to places long used to doing without. Sitarampur, in the Pathar Pratima subdivision of South 24 Parganas, remote, resilient, and often forgotten, now rests within this widening circle of light.

What moves us most, looking back, is not only the progress of technology, but the steadiness of purpose behind it. What began as an experiment has endured as a promise, honoured year after year. The turbines turn, the panels catch the sun, but beneath them lies something gentler and more enduring: the belief that progress, when shaped by care and conviction, can arrive without noise, and remain.

Once again, Aditi and I find ourselves standing quietly proud, grateful to be associated with our dear friends Sunil and Gargi, and with a journey that continues to illuminate far more than landscapes.