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Mridula Ramesh

Mridula Ramesh

Articles by Mridula Ramesh

Data centres must pay their true costs

An industry that treats innovation as both virtue and God should not need cheap water, unpriced heat and unquestioned grid support.

Updated on Aug 3, 2026 04:12 IST

Watt it’s worth: Why AI data centres run hot and drink deep

Vapour rises as a result of cooling operations at an AI data centre campus along the Columbia River in Oregon. (Adobe Stock)

Updated on Jul 31, 2026 13:39 IST

Are you going to finish that?: Mridula Ramesh writes on food delivery and waste

In India, online food orders alone are generating, by some estimates, enough food waste to fill 40 to 120 freight trains a year. (HT via ChatGPT)

Updated on Jul 3, 2026 12:41 IST

A crave new world: How food apps have gamed our brains

Food apps have built on the addictive nature of slot machines.

Updated on Jun 5, 2026 14:08 IST

The new order: Mridula Ramesh on the riveting evolutions of fast food

The proto-hamburger was anything but fast food. Modern capitalism transformed it into the poster-child of cravings. (Adobe Stock)

Updated on May 8, 2026 13:13 IST

A rot to answer for: Mridula Ramesh links food loss, climate, and cooking gas

An aerial view of Mumbai’s Mulund dumping ground. (HT Archives)

Updated on Apr 3, 2026 15:03 IST

The Pralaya Prophecy: An excerpt from Mridula Ramesh's climate-fiction novel

Updated on Mar 6, 2026 08:05 IST

No losses, just grains: Mridula Ramesh writes on the marvels of millets

Millet pancakes:Just what the doctor ordered. These grains help stabilise blood sugar, reduce inflammation. (Adobe stock)

Updated on Feb 27, 2026 15:07 IST

‘It’s going to get worse. Leadership means helping people adapt to climate change’

(AFP)

Updated on Feb 6, 2026 13:53 IST

‘We will soon have our ozone-hole moment on climate. Only then will we act’

Updated on Feb 6, 2026 13:47 IST

Culture shock: Your gut could be making you sad, angsty, anxious

In experiments with mice, the presence of ‘bad’ bacteria such as E. coli in the gut corresponded with heightened anxiety during moments of stress. It turns out the gut dispatches far more than nutrition into the body. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Jan 30, 2026 16:10 IST

Air apparent: Mridula Ramesh, on why India deserves its own Central Parks

Central Park is over 150 years old. It has lived through the Civil War (1861-65), the Gilded Age (roughly 1870s-1900), Great Depression, two world wars, the hippie era, the birth of the internet, and, I dare say, will live through the age of AI. (Mridula Ramesh)

Updated on Jan 2, 2026 13:06 IST

Scavengers: Endgame - Why the dying vulture should really worry you

Gyps vultures at the Panna National Park in Madhya Pradesh. Data indicates that vultures have vanished from nearly 75% of historical nesting sites in India (though they have appeared in some new ones). (Adobe Stock)

Updated on Dec 12, 2025 13:42 IST

Capital grain: We’re paying a higher price for rice than we realise, says Mridula Ramesh

A 19th-century watercolour of a rice seller at a bazaar in Delhi. (Wikimedia)

Updated on Oct 31, 2025 12:27 IST

Steamy secrets: Mridula Ramesh writes on lessons to be learnt from tea

A plantation sits amid a forest in China. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Oct 3, 2025 07:08 IST

Grounds for hope: Coffee could make our soil, planet healthier, says Mridula Ramesh

Shade trees protect a plantation in Coorg. It turns out that shade can help soil store far more carbon, slashing the footprint of the crop. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Sep 5, 2025 08:27 IST

A dark, bittersweet brew: Mridula Ramesh spills the beans on coffee

Coffee cherries dry in the sun, post-harvest. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Aug 1, 2025 11:07 IST

Can we hack our way through the sizzle?: Mridula Ramesh writes on heat

Paris is on red alert, with the top of the Eiffel Tower shut to visitors this week, amid a heat wave that has seen temperatures reach 41 degrees Celsius.The haze, incidentally, is from light reflecting off clouds of dust carried by strong winds. (AFP)

Updated on Jul 5, 2025 07:22 IST

Ready, aam, fire: India’s most treasured fruit is in danger, says Mridula Ramesh

An 1850 painting of a man throwing stones at a mango tree, to get at its fruit. (Victoria and Albert Museum)

Updated on May 31, 2025 09:40 IST

Looking to the future, a river runs through it

India could build additional infrastructure to divert the water to its own dry northwest, where this largesse would be welcomed with open arms (AFP)

Updated on May 11, 2025 16:49 IST

Sunny side up?: Mridula Ramesh on the economics of a breakfast missed

Updated on May 2, 2025 11:25 IST

Quite a lot to crow about: Mridula Ramesh has some good news about chicken

The modern chicken is believed to have descended from the red jungle fowl (above) native to India, South-East Asia and China. (Murrell Butler)

Updated on May 4, 2025 03:10 IST

The bark and bite of Indus Waters Treaty

To craft an effective disciplinary tool, it is the flow of these western rivers – the Indus, the Jhelum and the Chenab – which hold 80% of the river system’s water, that India must control. (ANI)

Updated on Apr 26, 2025 20:25 IST

The plot chickens: Why the price of eggs is soaring (in some parts)

At a poultry farm. (Adobe Stock)

Updated on Apr 4, 2025 11:10 IST

Restrictions apply*: Mridula Ramesh on why fasting is good for the planet

Simply reducing how much rice we eat could save billions of litres of water per day. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Mar 1, 2025 06:15 IST

Spring and fall: Mridula Ramesh on how water shaped the Vijayanagara empire

Locally called Bukka’s Bridge, this 14th century granite structure — about 200 metres long and 10 metres tall — supported a section of a 19-km aqueduct over uneven terrain. (Photo by CR Aravind)

Updated on Feb 15, 2025 17:03 IST

Smells like clean spirit: What does your drink cost the earth?

A 1785 painting of a toddy-tapper at work. (Wikimedia)

Updated on Jan 12, 2025 07:26 IST

Spirited away: Where did all our traditional alcohols go, asks Mridula Ramesh

An 1840 painting of a man selling alcohol to a couple.

Updated on Jan 4, 2025 15:49 IST

How many of us is too many?: Mridula Ramesh writes on the population matrix

Views of Paris, London and India by night, as seen from the International Space Station. (NASA-Johnson Space Center; Adobe Stock)

Updated on Nov 30, 2024 11:57 IST

Cane and able: Can sugar find a greener future, asks Mridula Ramesh

(Shutterstock)

Updated on Nov 2, 2024 09:03 IST

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