Manjori Borkotoky

Joined: June 22, 2022
Articles: 220

Feature, Natural Disasters

The Mountains Keep Sending the Same Message: Why India’s Himalayan Power Corridors Keep Getting Buried

The trucks, bulldozers and tankers parked at one of Jammu and Kashmir’s most ambitious power projects were meant to move mountains. On Monday morning, the mountain moved them instead. Within minutes, a wall of water, mud and boulders swept through…

Manjori Borkotoky
July 7, 2026

Indian Monsoon, Prebunk

A Weak Monsoon and Deadly Floods: How Both Can Be True in the Same Season

In July 2026, a reader in India can scroll past two headlines within minutes of each other. One announces a below-normal monsoon and a dry, difficult season ahead. The other shows submerged villages, families wading through chest-deep water, and a…

Manjori Borkotoky
July 4, 2026

Fact Check, Heat Wave

No, Europe’s Heatwave Isn’t Melting Traffic Lights, Trolleys and Car Parts. Here’s What’s Really Going On

A helmet-shaped blob dripping on a car’s windshield. A shopping trolley twisted out of shape. A bridge railing with something white pooling beneath it. A boot melting into a puddle of black rubber. These clips have been circulating in a…

Indian Monsoon, Prebunk

Prebunking the 2026 Monsoon Misinformation: Four Climate Myths You’ll Soon Hear

Every June, India watches the sky. This year a quieter audience is watching the forecasts, waiting for the first official sign that the monsoon will underperform so it can be repackaged into a familiar message: that the climate crisis was…

Manjori Borkotoky
June 26, 2026

Feature, Indian Monsoon

Arunachal Pradesh Floods Explained: How Climate Change Is Raising the Risk of Flash Floods

In the eastern Himalayas, a single violent night of rain can now redraw a district’s map. That is close to what residents of Deomali, in Arunachal Pradesh’s Tirap district, have been living through this month, after flash floods tore through…

Manjori Borkotoky
June 25, 2026

Environment, Explainer

Delhi Dust Storms and Climate Change: What’s Behind the Capital’s Yellow Skies?

Four times in a single fortnight this June, residents of the national capital watched the afternoon light drain out of the sky as walls of dust rolled in ahead of the rain. Each time, a familiar question surfaced online before…

Manjori Borkotoky
June 18, 2026

Environment, Feature

The Flood Paradox: Why Pune Can’t Afford to Cut 1,500 Botanical Garden Trees

The proposal reads like a small administrative item: a road, a public notice, a window for objections closing on 9 June. What it would actually do is remove close to 1,500 mature trees from the campus of the Botanical Survey…

Manjori Borkotoky
June 8, 2026

Climate Change Impact, Feature

The Hottest World Cup: How a Warming Planet Is Rewriting the 2026 Tournament

When the United States last hosted football’s biggest tournament in 1994, summer heat was an occasional nuisance. Three decades later, the planet that the 2026 World Cup will be played on is measurably different, and the difference is now showing…

Manjori Borkotoky
June 6, 2026

Feature, Indian Monsoon

90% of Normal: Why the 2026 Monsoon Arrival Has India’s Farmers on Edge

For the tens of millions of Indian farmers who plant their summer crops by the rhythm of the rains, the southwest monsoon’s arrival over Kerala is less a spectacle than a starting gun. This year, that gun has fired roughly…

Manjori Borkotoky
June 4, 2026

Environment, Feature

The Hidden Water Cost of India’s Race to Become an AI Superpower

India is in the midst of the most ambitious digital infrastructure expansion any developing nation has ever attempted. Governments are offering tax holidays. Conglomerates are committing billions. Prime Ministers are posing for billboards at AI summits. What is not on…

Manjori Borkotoky
June 2, 2026