Climate Change in India: Supersizing Risks for India’s Poor

Nand & Jeet Khemka Distinguished Lecture Series
Somini Sengupta
Somini Sengupta
International Climate Correspondent at The New York Times
Perry World House
3803 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104

About the Lecture:
Decades of short-sighted government policies endanger the health and well-being of millions of Indians in the age of climate change. Temperatures are rising in already hot places, the monsoon season is increasingly unreliable, coastal cities confront a rising sea, and glaciers are receding in the Himalayas. Greed and government mismanagement only makes matters worse, endangering the health and well being of India's hungriest, poorest people.

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Somini Sengupta

Somini Sengupta

Somini Sengupta, the international climate correspondent for The New York Times, tells the stories of communities and landscapes most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. She is The Times' first South Asia bureau chief of South Asian origin. A George Polk Award-winning foreign correspondent, she has reported from a Himalayan glacier, a Congo River ferry, the streets of Baghdad, Mumbai, and many places in between. As The Times’ United Nations correspondent, she reported on global challenges from war to women's rights. She is the author of The End of Karma: Hope and Fury Among India's Young (W.W. Norton, 2016).

The Nand & Jeet Khemka Distinguished Lecture Series is an endowed public program of the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI). Launched in the 2007-08 academic year, and made possible through the generous support of the Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation, the series brings renowned India specialists to the Penn community and serves as a critical forum for analyzing and understanding the complex economic, political, social, and cultural changes that the world’s largest democracy is experiencing, as well as the challenges that lie ahead.
The Saluja Global Fellows Program has been made possible by the generous gift from Vishal Saluja ENG’89 W’89. CASI was excited to launch the program during the 2022–23 academic year, coinciding with the Center’s 30th Anniversary. This new program enables CASI to invite eminent leaders and rising experts on contemporary India preferably from the fields of media, culture, law, and contemporary history to be in residence for one to two weeks at CASI.