🌑 Wisdom Drop-16

“The Earth warms us long before the sun ever rises —
if only we dare to listen beneath our feet.”

Araku Valley is not merely a place on a map.
It is a reminder that energy is not always in the sky, the wind, or the dam — sometimes it is in the quiet exhale of the planet itself.

India’s first major geothermal pilot is not a technological milestone alone.
It is a psychological shift.

For decades, we looked outward for energy — to coal seams, to oil wells, to solar fields, to wind corridors.
But geothermal forces us to look inward —
into the crust, into the ancient heat that predates civilisation, predates the Himalayas, predates even the idea of India itself.

This is not just an energy project.
This is an archaeology of fire.

A search for the earliest warmth the Earth ever offered.

And what Araku teaches us is simple:

The future is not always invented.
Sometimes, it is uncovered.

— IAS Monk