An informative book on climate change. Unfortunately, it has some serious drawbacks. CLIMATE change is the hot topic the world over today. It is threatening the lifestyle the West is used to, the lifestyle much of the Third World yearns for. The prognosis is rather disheartening. The earth is sick. It has fever, and the fever is about to affect its vital organs. And the infecting organism is homo sapiens, or human beings. We need to tighten up our extravagant lifestyles. They are not sustainable. The most seriously affected parts are going to be the developing countries. So, we in the Third World are in a dilemma. If we push for development the way the First World did, we are going to aggravate the disease. If we do not, we are going to suffer anyway. In this context, Climate Change: An Indian Perspective by Prof. Sushil Kumar Dash is an important book. A professor at the Centre for Atmospheric Science, Indian Institute of Technology New Delhi, Sushil Kumar Dash has almost 40 years